SAN FRANCISCO — Bernard Mayes, who founded the first suicide prevention hotline in the United States, has died in San Francisco. He was 85. His executor, Matthew Chayt, tells the San Francisco ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- The San Francisco man who is considered the founding force behind the suicide prevention movement in America has died. Bernard Mayes created the first crisis hotline in ...

He was 85. Mayes had Parkinson’s disease, according to KQED, the San Francisco radio station of which he was the first general manager. Though he wrote that he was never suicidal himself ...

“Call Bruce, PR1-0450, San Francisco Suicide Prevention.” The first call for Bruce — a pseudonym — went to a hotline established by Bernard Mayes, an Anglican priest and BBC correspondent ...

The first suicide hotline in the United States consisted of one man with one phone in one room in San Francisco. The man was Bernard Mayes, and he'd placed cardboard ads on Muni buses ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bernard Mayes, who founded the first suicide prevention hotline in the United States, has died in San Francisco. He was 85. His executor, Matthew Chayt, tells the San ...