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Subject: [Leica] The Secret Camera
From: bill_clough at yahoo.com (Bill Clough)
Date: Fri May 12 10:31:12 2006

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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