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Eyewitness

Witness, someone who has knowledge about a crime or dramatic event through first-hand experience via any of the senses


2013 Madhya Pradesh stampede

News agencies carried reports, including eyewitness reports, that policemen robbed and also threw dead bodies and even living survivors off the bridge into the swollen Sindh River below apparently in an effort to reduce the death count; D.K. Arya, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) for the Chambal Range based at Morena categorically denied the possibility.

Aeroput MMS-3

According to eyewitness reports, after the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the aircraft was destroyed by the crew at the airport near the village of Divci in Valjevo region that would not fall into enemy hands.

Alison Mau

Mau would later present late-night current affairs programming including Eyewitness and Newsnight, the latter of which she presented alongside Marcus Lush and her future husband Simon Dallow.

Amyre Makupson

In 1985, Makupson co-anchored WKBD's Ten O'Clock News and later anchored Eyewitness News at 11 on WKBD's sister station, WWJ-TV.

Auschwitz Report

the Auschwitz Protocols, also known as the Auschwitz Reports or Auschwitz Report, a collection of three eyewitness reports about Auschwitz (written 1943–1944) that were submitted in evidence at the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946)

Barry George

In 2002, the Court of Appeal's judgment on the appeal, having addressed a number of grounds including eyewitness testimony, scientific evidence, and the role of the trial judge, concluded that the verdict of the jury was not unsafe and that appeal was dismissed.

Berlin Sportpalast

A vivid eyewitness account of this speech is given by William L. Shirer in both Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Black-tailed deer

In Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, an eyewitness account of his 1846 trek across the early West, while within a two-day ride from Fort Laramie, Parkman writes of shooting what he believes to be an elk, only to discover he has killed a black-tailed deer.

Book of Abraham

Latter-day Saint Egyptologist John Gee, however, believes that eyewitness descriptions during Joseph Smith's lifetime described a complete document, free of lacunae.

Brian Flanagan

Richard Hinchion, 43, an insulating contractor from Munster, Indiana was another eyewitness supporting that version.

Call screener

Richard Roeper blamed call screeners in 2003 for a phone pranker getting through to Dan Rather live on-air during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, by not checking the area code of the caller, who claimed to be an eyewitness in Texas.

Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora

The archival documents contain dozens of eyewitness accounts corroborating not only the existence of Alonso but also his capture in 1687, his life with pirates (most notably William Dampier), his collaboration with them, and his return to Mexico in 1690, at which time Spanish colonial authorities suspected Alonso of piracy.

Chenogne massacre

An eyewitness account by John Fague of B Company, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion (of the 11th Armored Division), near Chenogne describes the killing of German prisoners by American soldiers.

David T. Wilentz

Wilentz built his case against Hauptmann on mostly circumstantial evidence, supported by both eyewitness and expert witness testimony.

Delamar Dry Lake

An eyewitness report regarding the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster came from a camper who was at Delamar Dry Lake on the morning of February 1, 2003.

Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh

Police suggested that a black LHD BMW car might have been involved, due to an eyewitness account of a car at the same location as Lamplugh's car in Stevenage Road.

Edward Grim

He subsequently researched and published a book, Vita S. Thomae (Life of Thomas Becket), published in about 1180, which is today known chiefly for a short section in which he gives an eyewitness account of the events in the Cathedral.

Erik Saar

A United States Army enlisted intelligence soldier, Sgt. Erik R. Saar was the author of the 2005 Inside the Wire : A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo, together with Viveca Novak.

Excellent Cadavers

Letizia Battaglia, a photojournalist and anti-Mafia activist, plays the role of survivor and passionate eyewitness.

Fred Burke

According to an eyewitness account in an article in The Chariton Collector magazine, Burke resided in a Kirksville, Missouri hotel for a few days prior to a local bank robbery.

Goh Poh Seng

His other books include the novels The Immolation (1977) and A Dance of Moths (1995), and poetry collections Eyewitness (1976), Lines from Batu Ferringhi (1978) and Bird With One Wing (1982).

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Notable people associated with the programme included Felicity Kennett, wife of the then Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett, and Jim Brown, a former Ten Eyewitness news journalist.

Hula massacre

An article (no title given) by R. Barkan from the Mapam newspaper Al Hamishmar, quoting a letter from eyewitness Dov Yermiya and the Jewish Agency's response, translated in the Journal of Palestine Studies, vol.

In Pursuit of Peace

The series is based on the 1999 book Eternal Vigilance: The Price of Freedom (published by Asiapac Books), which contains numerous eyewitness accounts of survivors of the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia.

Ira Wolfert

He also wrote non-fiction, including the 1943 bestselling eyewitness account Battle for the Solomons and the 1945 American Guerrilla in the Philippines, which recounts the exploits of Navy officer Iliff David Richardson and was made into a 1950 film of the same name, starring Tyrone Power as Richardson.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Largely with the appearance of the eyewitness account of Ginés de Mafra, the only seaman in Magellan's fleet to return to Mazaua, whose testimony reveals a concrete, measurable description of Mazaua, the skein starting from the garbled version of Pigafetta by Ramusio to the mishandling by Combés to Bellin and finally to Amoretti has been unraveled: Pigafetta's Gatighan is Bellin's Limasava.

Khmelnytsky Uprising

The purported eyewitness accounts of the siege of Florianów describes a massacre in which there were only two survivors out of the total population of "40,000".

Lancelot de Carle

Carle was an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn, Queen consort of Henry VIII, and shortly afterwards, he wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death.

Limasawa, Southern Leyte

The description of present-day Limasawa does not fit the geologic, geographic, geomorphologic, archaeologic, histriographic categories of Mazaua as described and explained in the eyewitness chronicles of Antonio Pigafetta, Ginés de Mafra, Francisco Albo, The Genoese Pilot, Martín de Ayamonte, as well as the secondhand accounts of Antonio de Brito, Andrés de San Martín, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, and Maximilianus Transylvanus.

Margaret Catchpole

Catchpole's letters of 8 October 1806 and 8 October 1809 are the only known eyewitness accounts of the Hawkesbury River floods of those years.

Mass graves in Chechnya

According to eyewitnesses, they decided to go public about the mass grave only after an official investigation of the mass grave in Grozny began in June, the wounded were finished-off by sniper and the bodies were then collected by the military and buried together with their smashed vehicles in an enormous pit on the territory of an asphalt factory.

Michelle Charlesworth

She was recently on a long list of WABC-TV reporters in line to replace fired Eyewitness News This Morning co-anchor Steve Bartelstein.

Nestor the Chronicler

As an eyewitness he could describe only the reigns of Vsevolod I and Svyatopolk II (1078–1112), but he could have gathered many interesting details from the lips of old men, two of whom could have been Giurata Rogovich of Novgorod, who could give him information concerning the north of Rus', Pechora River, and other places, and Yan Vyshatich, a nobleman ninety years of age, who died in 1106.

Northern Downpour

A news reporter interviews an eyewitness about it, who has "You clicked your heels and wished for me" printed on his shirt.

Peter Josyph

As an author of literary non-fiction, Peter Josyph has explored various forms of memoir, such as two books about reading novelist Cormac McCarthy; two books of eyewitness encounters in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan; a book of conversations with surgeon-author Richard Selzer, as well as a book of Selzer's correspondence with him; and ongoing chronicles, in essay and conversation, of his association with jazz composer and trumpet player Tim Hagans.

Raffaello Carboni

He is primarily remembered now as the author of the main eyewitness account of events at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Australia.

Robyn McGlohn

Robyn McGlohn is the current morning/noon news anchor for WSOC-TV Eyewitness News Daybreak and WAXN-TV Eyewitness News This Morning in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ruth Todd

Dick Nourse, Mark Eubank, Craig Bolerjack (1994–1998) Eyewitness News at 10 (KSL)

Sade

Sade Baderinwa, the WABC-TV Eyewitness News correspondent and anchor

Shah Mohammad

Shah Mohammad (1780–1862) was a Punjabi poet who lived during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and is best known for Jangnama— a colossal work that gave an eyewitness account of the First Anglo-Sikh War that took place after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Shaka Sankofa

Sankofa's supporters, including Coretta Scott King, bishop Desmond Tutu, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and celebrities Danny Glover, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, brought his case international attention, arguing that his conviction was based on the claim that the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder.

Storm Field

In addition to his weather duties, in 1981 Field became the anchor of the recently launched 5 PM Eyewitness News broadcast, working alongside Tracy Egan and (later) Kaity Tong.

Ukee Washington

He anchors Eyewitness News This Morning on CBS 3 and The CW Philly with co-anchor Erika Von Tiehl, and co-hosts Talk Philly with Pat Ciarrocchi weekdays at noon.

Unexplained Mysteries

The show deals with eyewitness accounts of paranormal activity, especially aliens, UFOs, and ghosts; almost all of them rehashed reports from the series Sightings.

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko

Albert Rhys Williams, American journalist that wrote numerous books about the revolutionary activities in Petrograd of 1917-1918 as being the primary eyewitness of the events.


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