Joyful reunion -- with tragedy in background
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Joyful reunion -- with tragedy in background

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · March 8, 1952

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Mrs. Mary M. Carancho is greeted by her sons, Manuel (left) and Anthony, as she arrives at Boston's Logan Airport from her native Portugal. She came to begin a new life with her family, unaware that her husband earlier this week killed two of their daughters, wounded a third and then killed himself in their Gloucester, Mass., home. The sons planned to tell her of the tragedy later today.

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