JERUSALEM: ISRAEL'S COMMERCIAL TELEVISION STATION, CHANNEL TWO, AIR VIDEO TAPE PICTURES OF THE ASSASSINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN.

Record ID: 227365

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAEL'S COMMERCIAL TELEVISION STATION, CHANNEL TWO, AIR VIDEO TAPE PICTURES OF THE ASSASSINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN.
  • Date: 19th December 1995
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (DECEMBER 19, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/SV CHANNEL 2 STUDIO (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. GV/VARIOUS CHANNEL 2 MASTER CONTROL ROOM WITH STAFF WATCHING MONITORS (10 SHOTS) 0.55 3. GV/LV/ZOOM CHANNEL 2 NEWSROOM - PEOPLE WATCHING TV SCREENS (7 SHOTS) 1.43 4. GV/SV/ZOOM/PAN HEBREW UNIVERSITY - STUDENTS SEATED AND WATCHING (4 SHOTS) 2.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 3rd January 1996 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVABQ979N8T521QM64G377X2BN7F
  • Story Text: Israel's commercial television station, Channel Two, aired on Tuesday (December 19) video tape pictures of the assasination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    The pictures show Rabin's last moments including the fateful shooting, and focus extensively on Rabin's assasin Yigal Amir, who is seen sitting in the so called "clean area" reserved for security personel and dignitries.

    The tape shows Amir speaking to policemen, and standing only several meters away from then israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, before advancing towards Rabin and firing three shots.

    Channel Two bought the rights to the video, taken by an amateur photographer's videotape of the assassination for nearly $400,000 on Monday.

    Photographer Roni Kempler, 37, a Tel Aviv accountant, sold the rights to the videotape more than a month after handing it over to a state inquiry into the security lapses.

    Kempler shot for about an hour, then decided he wanted to film VIPs leaving the stage. While filming, he became nervous.

    I had a feeling that something bad would happen," he said in an interview with Channel 2. Asked why he turned the camera on Amir, Kempler said: He looked suspicious to me when he sat there next to the plant... and he looked to me like a potential murderer.

    Industry sources said they expected the new owners of the film to recoup the expense in sales to TV stations worldwide. Israel's Channel Two Network has screened amateur video showing the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    The programme, broadcast on Tuesday (December 19) for the first time, had a huge audience throughout the country.

    The trial has been postponed until January 23.


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