Bobby Jean Bernhardt was flying. She had just been shot out of a cannon — a human missile fired four storeys into the air above a huge outdoor stage. It was the summer of 1936, and the Canadian National Exhibition was in full swing. Thousands of Torontonians and tourists had packed the CNE Grandstand that night to witness one of the strangest spectacles in the entire history of the fair. But something was about to go wrong.
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Disaster for the Human Cannonball
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Bobby Jean Bernhardt was flying. She had just been shot out of a cannon — a human missile fired four storeys into the air above a huge outdoor stage. It was the summer of 1936, and the Canadian National Exhibition was in full swing. Thousands of Torontonians and tourists had packed the CNE Grandstand that night to witness one of the strangest spectacles in the entire history of the fair. But something was about to go wrong.