Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, "insisted" he go downtown for questioning. As word of Williams' interrogation began to spread, many Atlantans expressed hope that the long search for a killer of many of the city's 28 young black victims might be over. Yet twelve hours later Williams, a former TV cameraman and part-time talent-booking agent, was released. Publicly, law enforcement officials said they did not have enough evidence to hold him. Privately, they insisted he was still a suspect. Said one: "The sense is that we've got our man. It's just a matter of time...
Standing close to the wall, he complained about the press, which had been griping about onlookers getting in the way. ABC Cameraman Henry Brown had protested that the press area had been "penetrated" by people who were "interfering with our work." Replied a man whom Brown assumed was a Secret Service agent: "We'll try to do something." A.P. Radio Reporter Walter Rodgers pushed his way along the wall, extending his fishpole mike, when he heard the young man complain about the reporters: "They ought to get here on time. They think they can do anything they want...
Amid the noise and confusion of the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life, ABC Cameraman Hank Brown coolly held his ground, keeping his camera rolling. The moment shots rang out on his right, reporters, Government officials and bystanders instinctively ducked for cover. But Brown stayed on his feet to capture a series of haunting images that by day's end were burned into the national memory: the President waving, then being jackknifed into his limousine by a Secret Service agent; Press Secretary James Brady and a Secret Service agent falling to the pavement wounded. Brown swung...
...just spent $10 billion, finished a week-long countdown, flooded a million gallons of fuel into a hundred-thousand-pound bird, and launched the whole contraption into orbit," a beer-drinking cameraman bellowed in front of the press grandstand...
...hotel coffee shop as easily as in the bush." In the past two weeks, a CBS crew was robbed by guerrillas armed with automatic weapons; an ABC reporter had a gun pointed at his head in downtown San Salvador by a man who then simply drove away; and NBC Cameraman Hermes Munoz was held up by masked men as he left San Vicente. When Munoz protested that he was a newsman, one of the guerrillas muttered, "Newsmen will be the first to die." Indeed, at least five foreign journalists have been among the more than 15,000 killed over...