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Newspaper clipping

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First Introduced

"Through the Looking Glass"

Owned by

Jack

Found by

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Used by

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The newspaper clipping is a short newspaper article that Jack ripped out of The Los Angeles Times. ("Through the Looking Glass")

The article is about a man from New York, one Jeremy Bentham, who was found dead in Los Angeles. Jack first noticed the item in a newspaper while he was on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles during one of his many attempts to return to the Island. Jack was the only person to attend Bentham's viewing.

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A closer look at the clipping

The clipping appears to read:

During the 2008 Comic Con Showrunners Panel Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse confirmed that the name on the newspaper clipping is in fact, as predicted after the season finalé, "Jeremy Bentham".

An inverted look at the clipping

Production note

• The physical creation of the article was from Lost's prop department, and although the creators of Lost are aware of HDTV screencapping by fans, the fine print may or may not have been a direct product of the writing department.
  • For an similar example of detail from content from the film crew's props department rather than the writers, see Ho`oulu Lāhui document.
• It was said by the producers that the article would be re-written.^{[source needed]}

Trivia

Jack views the entire newspaper page. ("Through the Looking Glass")

• 4300 South Grand is a few miles south of Downtown Los Angeles, and slightly south-east of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
• The Grand Tower apartments are at 255 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA. The apartments provide short-term housing in the Central Business District of L.A., with close proximity to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and numerous office buildings. Seems to be the likely location for the death.
• Where the clipping of the obituary announcement would be in the real LA Times page is an article about a marijuana bust.
• "Ted", "The Tower", and "beam" are all references to central characters or places in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books, and other books that allude to the Dark Tower, such as Hearts in Atlantis.
• The article that the episode's newspaper prop is based on is from the April 5th, 2007 edition of the Los Angeles Times, which was first reported by the LA Times itself on May 24, 2007. [2]

Compare the article images and title with the lower two images of Jack's newspaper above. This is the actual ("real life") Los Angeles Times page B4 from April 5, 2007 [1]

A side-by-side comparison shows the differences between the two items. The portion of the page exposed on Jack's lap is the upper left quadrant of the full page.

See also

• Locke's coffin