HEADLINE: JOURNALISTS REMEMBER COLLEAGUES
Morir Es La Noticia Examines Lives Of Fallen Reporters
SOURCE: SANTIAGO TIMES
TEXT: The cover of the Morir es la Noticia bears the photograph of a soldier pointing his gun directly at the camera. The man behind the lens is Argentine camera man Leonardo Henrichsen, who
ventured onto the street outside the presidential building La
Moneda in Santiago on June 29, 1973 to document an Army
uprising against the Chilean government. An instant after
capturing his own assassin on film, Henrichsen lay dead on the
ground.
The footage from Henrichsen's camera subsequently
circulated the world as testimony to the dramatic events that
preceded the military overthrow of Salvador Allende's
democratically-elected socialist government less than three
months after the reporter's death.
At a launching Wednesday (August 19)of the book's third
edition, editor Ernesto Carmona announced that Argentine and
Chilean journalists are now researching the images from
Henrichsen's roll of film in order to identify the soldier in the
photograph.
[These images also appear in the powerful documentary, "The Battle of Chile", by the way]
― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago)