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I worked with Tim Chapman at the mass sucides/murders in Guyana in 1978. Tim, who just retired, is legendary. Here's a bit of info the man. Scroll down and there is a video of reporters riding with him on one of his last days. This is the shit I used to do. Man, I miss it and those days will never come again....

http://aldiazphoto.blogspot.com/2012/12 ... m.html?m=1

from Al Diaz

Smack in the middle of Miami’s Cocaine Cowboys and their illegal drug trade I decided to buy a police scanner. Within hours, the purchase propelled me into harms way, launched my career and allowed me to meet photojournalist Tim Chapman.

The year 1979, a lone Miami Police officer staking out a Little Havana home calls for back up when the suspects inside decide to flee with their illicit drugs. Not far to drive from my childhood home, I arrive hearing sirens blaring, tires streaking and see guns everywhere.

In the middle of all this madness I see a photographer in the middle of the street standing face-to-face arguing with a cop. I shoot a picture. The officers supervisor approached the rookie cop and said to leave Chapman alone, he’s seen more action than you have.

The next day Chapman’s photos are spread across the front page of The Miami Herald and mine on the AP wires.

After 40 years on the job, Tim Chapman is retiring from The Miami Herald on December 31. He’s covered wars, hurricanes, riots, earthquakes, mass exoduses from Cuba, kidnappings, plane crashes, death and mayhem including Guyana’s Jonestown massacre in 1978.

It goes on: http://aldiazphoto.blogspot.com/2012/12 ... m.html?m=1
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