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The curtain of silence that has concealed Cambodia from Western eyes ever since the Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom-Penh on April 17 opened briefly last week, revealing a shocking portrait of a nation in torturous upheaval. Eyewitness reports by the few Western journalists who stayed on in the Cambodian...
Naive Glee. Eyewitness accounts contained scenes of savage contrast. Many of the Khmer Rouge soldiers who first entered Phnom-Penh were country boys who joyfully climbed aboard abandoned automobiles and rammed them, more by accident than design, against walls or telegraph poles; with naive glee, they looted stores for wristwatches...
In a skilled public relations move, the P.R.G. also allowed CBS's Peter Kalischer, 60, A.P.'s Daniel De Luce, 63, and his wife, as well as several other foreign newsmen, to visit Danang and Hue via Hanoi and send out eyewitness reports on the return to normal...
Shortly before 9 p.m. on June 19, 1953, Columnist Bob Considine stepped in front of newsreel cameras set up outside the walls of Sing Sing Prison to give his eyewitness account of the executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. The old pro obliged his audience with a few grisly details...
Eyewitness Considine did not reveal the source of this final bit of information; he had little need to. For most Americans in the 1950s, leaving the convicted atom spies to heaven was the proper way to end one of the most emotionally charged cases ever tried under American law.