Category: Aberfan
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Nightmares of a Disaster, Part 3
ABERFAN The Days After (Part Three) The nightmares began a few weeks into my assignment. I had spent the first ten or twelve days immersed in the “story” I was about to tell with my photographs. As a photojournalist, my task was not merely to wander the village looking for striking images, though I did…
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Nightmares of a Disaster, Part 2
ABERFAN The Days After (Part Two) The Mackintosh Pub became my friend. My only friend. As a journalist, I was an outcast and in some cases a despised one. Thanks to the hundreds of newspaper and TV reporters who came through Aberfan before me, a very bad taste was left in the mouths of the…
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Nightmares of a Disaster, Part 1
ABERFAN The Days After Part One (November 1966) It was on all the news stations that October morning. First reports: A mountain had fallen on an elementary school in Aberfan, Wales. Hundreds of children were dead or missing along with some of their teachers. It was Friday, 21 October 1966. The children had gone off…