Yorkieguy
Established Member
The 'film crew' consisted of a cameraman and the producer. They were about to go on air when shots rang out. All three of them were on the ground taking shelter behind their car when he went on air. As well as the volley of shots from the shooter, there were more shots when the police returned fire. If a few others were walking nonchalantly around, trying to prove Darwin's theory of the non-survival of the stupidest, that's their business, but I'd have been on the ground until I was very satisfied that it was safe to stand up.
Below is a clip of the transcript and a link to the video.
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Donald Trump was mid-way through a sentence as the shots rang out. He grabbed his ear before dropping to the ground and being smothered by Secret Service agents. We didn’t know it at the time, but the gunman was perhaps 150m away from where we stood, lying flat on the roof of a shed and firing at least six rounds using an AR-15 rifle at the former president and terrified spectators.
I was about to go on air, with radio colleagues from the BBC World Service waiting on the end of a line. Instead, all three of us in my team - me, producer Iona Hampson and cameraman Sam Beattie - went to the ground, using our car as some kind of shelter, the only shelter we had.
We had no idea where the shooting was coming from; how many shooters there were; and how long it would go on for. Frankly it was terrifying. As we lay on the ground, Sam turned on his camera and I tried to give my first impressions of what was happening. In that moment, we had no more concrete information than that about six minutes into Donald Trump’s speech, the shooting had begun. As I listened, I could hear screams from the crowd, but I could no longer hear the former president speaking. Was he hit, was he dead? All these thoughts flash through your mind.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnl0xq0j9ewo
Gary O'Donoghue was born partially sighted but went totally blind by the time he was eight. On leaving school, attended Oxford University, where he read philosophy and modern languages. He joined the BBC as a graduate, and has reported on many significant events, becoming the BBC’s North America Correspondent in 2014.
During his career, he has covered stories for BBC News in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the U.S. In 2004, he became a political correspondent based at Westminster, reporting across the media of radio, TV and internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_O'Donoghue
I am not this forum's 'arbiter of good taste', but I think O'Donoghue is entitled to respect rather than ridicule. Just my point of view, so I guess we’ll have to disagree on that.
David.
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