Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cable News Network Reporter James Allen Miklaszewski who photographed the American military advisers in El Salvador, as your article indicates [Aug. 9]. Freelance Cameraman Howard Dorf shot the videotape while working as an independent contractor for CNN in El Salvador...
Down in the pit of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing room, Photographer Roddey Mims hunched over and squinted through his Nikon view finder at George Shultz, Secretary of State-designate. As Mims cranked off frames of the imperturbable Shultz through two days of testimony, the cameraman concluded that he had not seen such an open and luminescent pate since the days of Dean Rusk or such a noble double chin since Henry Kissinger used to come around to explain the world...
...reporters in Israel, trying to get past Israeli border guards into Lebanon was a quasi-military operation. NBC Cameraman Yossi Greenberg tried the direct approach: he raced through an open gate at 80 m.p.h. in a rented car. This prompted a guard to fire over his head with an M-16 automatic rifle to try to scare him back. Later, Greenberg, like other reporters, took advantage of an opening in the 60-mile-long border fence into Lebanon. In the first two days some correspondents slipped past simply by following Israeli armored columns through the gap; the dust churned...
...Cuban accent," said one reporter. Out in the countryside, ABC and NBC vans in search of the elusive Cuban bogged down in the mud, and a Salvadoran peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured the action. When Ike Seamans of NBC approached the San Vicente garrison, the soldier on duty wouldn't even let him speak. "The lieutenant is asleep and the Cuban is dead," said the soldier...
...very early days of photojournalism, picture takers often trailed behind writers, like baggage carriers in the African bush. "Just look over our heads, Mr. Secretary," a cameraman once called up to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who was standing with other diplomats on a balcony. "We always do " replied Acheson. Now the roles are more nearly equal "When I hear snooty remarks about photojournalists, I think of one of their greatest achievements-objective presentation of war and its consequences " says Evans. "Their pictures have told many truths, and they have been prepared to risk everything to capture an image...