Faces of Death III Page #8

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The survival

of a terrorist regime

is dependent

upon secrecy.

The failure of the

interrogation of Carlos Marino

could only be

resolved in one way,

for there could be

no witnesses.

No one will ever know if

Carlos was indeed guilty.

My friend,

Alfredo Garrob,

has never wanted to move out

of this war-ridden country.

He has a firm belief that

some kind of political

moderation will

be reached.

I hope so

for his sake.

As for me, I've just confirmed

my plane reservations

to the

United States.

I must confess I feel

a bit out of place here,

I don't speak Spanish, and

I don't have any desire to die

in a war in which

I am not involved.

But I do have to admit

there's one thing I'll miss;

Alfredo's

home made tequila.

Long live

the revolution.

On June 1, 1979, police

responded to a phone tip

that a bomb had been

placed at the home

of a recently defected

Russian artist.

Time was of

the essence,

for the lives of

these professionals

were at the

mercy of a bomb

that could explode

at any given second.

There could be

no room for panic.

Patience was the key to their

success and their survival.

Let's check

the pit out.

We have

an alert here.

Sad, we

have an alert.

Fearing that the explosive device

might detonate at any moment,

the Bomb Squad

had no choice

but to disarm it

on the premises.

A reinforced steel shield

was erected

to protect the Bomb Squad observers

and the news cameraman.

Okay, we have

a destructive devise,

seven sticks

of Hercules dynamite,

two battery supplies,

a Quartz clock attached

to an arming device.

I'm gonna try and pull

the blasting cap...

going for the

blasting cap now.

Bomb Squad members are faced

with death on a daily basis.

Bill Reynolds had often

expressed his fear of death

at a bomb

exploding in his hands.

On this

very day,

Bill's greatest fear

became a tragic reality

as he experienced

his own face of death.

Through the mid 1960s

to the early1970s,

America was involved

in a war

that has never really

been understood.

The locale

was Vietnam.

A country divided

by civil war,

hoping to prevent

the spread of communism,

the United States

set up a base of operations

in the city

of Saigon,

where Americans teamed

with South Vietnamese

to destroy

the dreaded Vietcong.

Unfortunately, this was

a way which nobody could win.

For five years, Cliff Freedman had

been a news cameraman in Vietnam.

His dramatic footage of the

war had brought him awards

as well

as recognition.

Many times he would risk his

life to get that extra shot

that had made

his photography so unique.

Freedman never carried

a gun during his tenure

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