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...Viet Nam footage he screened on his CBS newscast one night last week was particularly poignant for Walter Cronkite. It showed a mortar bar rage at the Khe Sanh airstrip that wounded both the co-producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith. Neither Smith nor Bensley, who was filling in for an injured CBS sound man at the time, was seriously hurt. But three days later, after evacuation to Danang, Producer Bensley was wounded again during a rocket attack. His colon was ruptured and his spleen had to be removed. "The irony of it," said...
...Since the Tet offensive began, 14 correspondents and crewmen from the U.S. networks have been injured. Last week two ABC men, Bill Brannigan and Jim Deckard, were injured in the bombardment of Khe Sanh.* As a result, many members of TV's standard three-man teams (correspondent, cameraman and sound man) have begged off from hazardous assignments, and the networks are having trouble reporting all the battles. CBS Tokyo Bureau Chief Igor Oganesoff, who was frequently shuttled into Viet Nam for fill-in duty, has refused further combat assignments, ABC's Don North, a veteran of 18 months...
Rise Up & Zoom In. Of the three-man teams, the cameraman is in most constant danger. Says one of the best of them, NBC's Vo Huynh, a refugee from Haiphong who has covered just about every major engagement since 1960, "During a firefight, you can't lie down and shoot. You have to sit up every so often for at least ten seconds." And the cameraman, unlike his colleagues, finds the G.I. helmet too cumbersome when he rises up and zooms...
...credit or no, U.S. or native Vietnamese, cameraman or correspondent, some of the best of the TV crewmen are not bugging out. "It's a good story," explains NBC's Vo Huynh, "something I can't miss. So I've got to be here." Agrees Garrick Utley, NBC correspondent since 1963: "You learn in two weeks or even two days out here what takes two years anywhere else." CBS Cameraman Smith insists that he wants "to go back as soon as I can -this month if the doctors will...
Maybe being married to Frank Sinatra has nothing to do with it, but Mia Farrow, 23, has bagged her first photographer-handbagged him, in fact: she clouted a press-agency cameraman in New Delhi with her purse. The poor fellow had been waiting for Mia outside her hotel, hoping to catch her as she wended her meditational way to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, her publicity-prone swami. One of the Yogi's henchmen intervened, an altercation ensued, and Mia teed off. The photographer came away with bruises and a lump, and the Indian press came away dubious about...