Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filming of Cecil Andrews' tragic act of self-destruction [March 21] shows that people like to see others get hurt. Consider the excess of violence on television and in films. While TV-news leaders condemned the judgment of WHMA's news director, the major networks all showed portions of the tape that recorded a man setting himself on fire. The networks cannot resist satisfying the public's grisly appetite...
...caller was Cecil Andrews, 37, an unemployed roofer and day laborer who had a history of instability. On the night he telephoned his threat or plea to WHMA, he was staggering drunk. Andrews was apparently near the Jacksonville square (actually, a green rectangle bordered by shops and the city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area...
That Friday, a man named Cecil Andrews called the local television station four times threatening to set himself on fire in the town square as a protest against unemployment in America. An official at the station telephoned the police, and then sent two cameramen to the square. At 11:10 p.m. the cameramen found Andrews. They were certain, they said later, that police were hiding somewhere in the small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started...
...people who watched a woman being raped last week, and the cameramen who watched Cecil Andrews burn himself, were not mere inactive bystanders. They were audiences. Social conditioning may explain people's fear of getting involved. But something about last week's events defies explanation...
...more advantageous position regarding communication with the faculty than we were a year ago." Cecil McNab, president of the Third World Coalition, said yesterday. "We're not at the same level of trust ration...