Photographers Lost in 1971 Shootdown Honored
By Megan • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Editor & Publisher reports from the Associated Press:
“NEW YORK Ten years ago this week, a U.S. military search team digging into a steep mountainside in southern Laos found camera parts, film, broken watches and bits of wreckage — proof that a South Vietnamese helicopter had been shot down there in 1971, a UH-1 Huey that was carrying four top-rated war photographers and seven Vietnamese soldiers.
Only scant traces of human remains were found, but a sealed capsule containing those remains is finally about to be interred in a place of honor.
On Thursday, family members, diplomats from five countries and aging veterans of the wartime Saigon press corps will dedicate the capsule at the Newseum, a $439 million Washington, D.C., museum devoted to the history and practice of journalism.
The unusual burial comes a day before the formal dedication of the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial gallery, a special showcase of sacrifice in the glass-walled edifice near the U.S. Capitol.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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