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 ...

An elevator at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor trapped a medical employee for 7 hours. Firefighters had to use rope to get them out.

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 ...

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 ...