Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's first extended look at such minicamera coverage of a spontaneous event came in Los Angeles during the May 17 Shootout between police and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. CBS affiliate KNXT had a tiny camera on the scene minutes after the shooting began. The station's live pictures of the life-and-death holocaust were then fed to other L.A. stations and to the rest of the nation. WNBC-TV in New York City has taken a minicamera into an operating room to broadcast live snippets of a kidney transplant during its two-hour evening...
...center aisle, spectators leaped from their seats and screamed. Security men rushed toward the stage. Park, displaying the cool aplomb of a professional soldier, ducked behind the bulletproof lectern while his bodyguards returned the fire. A 16-year-old high school girl in the audience was killed in the Shootout. Another bullet struck the gunman in the leg; he was wrestled to the floor and carried out of the hall. A third bullet hit Park's charming wife Yook Young Soo, who was seated on the dais directly behind him. Park stoically returned to the lectern and resumed...
...glass doors. In the event of an attack, they would be directly in the line of fire. Their captors, in fact, were no strangers to killing. They were all serving time for murder or assault to murder. Their leader, Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, who had been injured in a shootout with police, was a lifer suspected of killing dozens of people in Texas and Mexico. Ignacio Cuevas, 42, was serving a 45-year stretch. Rudolfo Dominguez, 27, had been sentenced to 15 years. Death was very much on their minds-then" hostages' death, their own, anybody's. Repeatedly...
...screen, the cops are closing in for the final shootout. With seconds to spare, they bear down on the bad guys' hideaway, pull up to the curb...
...sympathetic forum for radical groups, Los Angeles' KPFK-FM found itself with two prized scoops after the May 17 shootout between L.A. police and six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. The first was a three-page statement from the "Weather Underground." The group claimed credit for bombing an office of the state attorney general as a token of support for the S.L.A. Then came a tape-recorded message from Patricia Hearst and two other S.L.A. survivors (TIME, June...