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“Tragedy by the Sea”: A tragic incident that changed a couple's life forever, 1955 “Tragedy by the Sea”: A dreadful incident that changed a couple's life forever, 1955. April 2, 1954: A couple are photographed moments after learning that their 19-month-old child had been swept out to sea at Hermosa Beach. On the morning of April 2, 1954, Los Angeles Times photographer John Gaunt was lounging in the front yard of his beachfront home in Hermosa Beach when he heard a neighbor shout, “Something’s happening on the beach!” Instinctively, Gaunt grabbed his Rolleiflex camera and rushed over to see a horrified couple clutching each other. On the shore, with high, crashing surf as a backdrop, stood a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald. As they moved forward, then back, clinging to one another, their body language told Gaunt a story that tightened his stomach. He realized that someone must be lost and he took a photograph from two hundred feet away. Only then did he learn that just