Decades later, Betty Lou Oliver still holds the record for surviving a 1,000-foot fall in the Empire State Building: "They thought she had died," her daughter tells PEOPLE Betty Lou Oliver, who just ...

The Ann Arbor Fire Department performs an average of 85 elevator rescues every year, but a recent rescue was different. Firefighters rappelled 30 feet down an elevator shaft at C.S. Mott Children’s ...

Betty Lou Oliver, who just turned 20, had no idea her final day of work would mark the day she earned a Guinness World Record for surviving the longest elevator free fall July 28 marks the 80th ...

Oliver's daughter tells PEOPLE that she stayed away from publicity, living her life in relative obscurity as an Arkansas housewife Betty Lou Oliver’s last day on the job as an elevator operator for ...