{"id":35873,"date":"2026-09-03T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=35873"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:54:58","slug":"killed-by-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/killed-by-a-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Killed by a Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WARSAW, Jan. 8 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zbigniew Cybulski, Poland&#8217;s most popular screen actor and the best known in the West, was killed today when he fell under a moving train at Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 39-year-old star ran onto the station platform as the Warsaw Express was beginning to pull out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He scrambled for an open door but fell between two coaches <br><br><br>The rest is history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>A newspaper cutting had been hidden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a book of poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rainer Maria Rilke<br>The New York Times <br><br><br>I happened to be on a railway station<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waiting for an express train<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which was a hour distant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tracks were totally vacant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And were gleaming in the rain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW, Jan. 8 1967 Zbigniew Cybulski, Poland&#8217;s most popular screen actor and the best known in the West, was killed today when he fell under a moving train at Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland The 39-year-old star ran onto the station platform as the Warsaw Express was beginning to pull out He scrambled for an open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35877,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions\/35877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}