[Leica] The Secret Camera

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

Boy, you are depressing today. ;-)


On 5/12/06 1:31 PM, "Bill Clough" <bill_clough@yahoo.com> wrote:

> USA
> TEXAS
> CORPUS CHRISTI
> 12 May 2006
> 
>> From the Associated Press:
> 
>    While a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II,
> Terence Sumner Kirk built a pinhole camera to make a
> photographic record of his starving fellow POWs.
>    He said he wanted to document the horrors he and his
> fellow Marines endured during four years in a Japanese
> prisoner of war camp. He used smuggled photo supplies to
> make that record--despite the threat of summary execution
> if his captors found out. He then wrapped the photos in oil
> cloth and buried them in a latrine.
>    Kirk kept his secret for 38 years after signing a War
> Department document prohibiting prisoners held by the
> Japanese from telling their stories without government
> permission. But, in 1983, Kirk released his memoirs and
> prison photos in his book ?The Secret Camera.?
>    Kirk died on Wednesday at his home in Burleson, Texas,
> south of Fort Worth. He was 89.
> 
> 
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