Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:09:46 -0400
From: Bob Saar <bsaar@thehawkeye.com>
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To: "Mark D. Phillips" <mphillips@stellarimages.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Quotes]

Mark, here's what went out. Please let me know your thoughts, and thanks. http://www.thehawkeye.com/columns/Saar/c93001.html 

"Mark D. Phillips" wrote:

>"People saw it on websites and started emailing him. " 

>It was published in many newspapers even before the Internet. I think most people saw it in the papers first. 

>Here is the link to the first article:
>http://63.208.24.134/Terrorism/kenny6.htm 

>And here is his followup:
>http://63.208.24.134/Terrorism/kenny7.htm 

>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject: Quotes
>>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:18:12 -0400
>>From: Bob Saar <bsaar@thehawkeye.com>
>>To: mphil@stellarimages.com

>>Mark, thanks again. Please review the following and let me know if you want to add, delete, or modify.
>>Also, my scrawl is illegilbe re the "seeing may not be believing." Can you please tell me where that article lives? Not finding Pointer Institute on Web.

>>I appreciate your time.

>>Mark D. Phillips, StellarImages
>>Face in the smoke photo
>>Friday, September 28, 2001 telephone 718-858-6213 

>>Former AP staff photog during the Gulf War, shot Challenger explosion 

>>Wife shouted at him to look at the TV, I went into journalistic battle mode, grabbed 2 cameras and ran to the roof of the house. Heard the second plane hit. Photo is the first one he took in his sequence. 

>>Transmitted photo to AP less than 15 minutes later, there was no time to doctor it.

>>Digital camera, therefore no neg, How do you prove its real? 

>>Sold to AP for one-timer, then sent to his agent in the city. People saw it on websites and started emailing him. Credit AP/Mark D. Phillips, which searched turns up stellarimages site. Agent was first to tell him about the face. Received 160 e-mail on Sept 12, about 5000 since 9/11. 

>>Ive got a history and Im not going to throw it away. 

>>A lot of e-mail Im getting placed me with Internet hoaxes. 

>>People are sending me their entire religious stories and asking me for advice about how to conduct their lives. 

>>Its a photo of a horrid, horrid event. Thats all it is." 


>>--
>>Bob Saar
>>Technology/Short Circuits
>>The Hawk Eye, Iowa's oldest newspaper
>>http://www.thehawkeye.com/columns/saar 

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http://www.thehawkeye.com/columns/saar