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| John Del Giorno - WABC 7 Chopper Cameraman | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 30 2008, 10:57 PM (538 Views) | |
| shure | Sep 30 2008, 10:57 PM Post #1 |
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John Del Giorno - WABC 7 Chopper Cameraman « Thread Started on Oct 11, 2007, 1:40pm »  - Del Giorno’s first big story was the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. - Del Giorno was on assignment over Martha’s Vineyard in the wake of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crash.  September 11 2001  John Del Giorno confirms he was the cameraman in News Chopper 7 on 9/11 who took the first footage aired live "allegedly" of United Airlines Flight 175 hitting the second tower. click link below to listen to phone call, or right click and save target as to download: http://www.pumpitout.com/audio/john_delgiorno_061407.mp3 John Del Giorno has never bothered to call me back! ------------------------------------- More:  Nico's Mashup "DJ Shure hunts WABC7 Cameraman or...?" (Del Giorno: "I call you back.."-Fantomas ADM Mix) http://livevideo.com/video/8D851485794E49818EBECB8DE923A82D/-dj-shure-hunts-wabc7-camerama.aspx?lastvcid=243271 -------------------------------------------------------------------  Member of Eyewitness News Team killed in Midtown crash NewsCopter7 pilot dies when cab jumps curb  http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=traffic&id=5695854 Midtown - WABC, October 8, 2007) - We are mourning the loss of a member of the Eyewitness News team. NewsCopter7 pilot Captain Paul Smith was killed when a cab smashed into people on a crowded sidewalk outside a popular restaurant in Midtown Sunday night. Authorities are hoping surveillance video will shed some light onto what happened. Earlier Monday, Eyewitness News sat and talked with Corey and Cale Smith inside Bellevue Hospital -- the sons of Captain Paul and Donna Smith. Their dad was brought to this hospital last night, while their mom is still suffering at the hospital from multiple injuries. The young men, ages 26 and 24, said every time they think of their father, they realize they still had so much to learn from him. Cory and Cale Smith have barely left their mother's hospital bed inside Bellevue Hospital. The family is now leaning on each other during their darkest moment. At about 10:00 Sunday night, their parents and several other good friends had just celebrated a birthday inside Docks Oyster Bar on Third Avenue. The group had moved outside, when Paul was trying to hale a cab. That's when the driver of another taxi lost control, hit a tree and pinned Captain Smith, killing him instantly. Donna has a broken pelvis, shattered ribs and bruised liver. Cale tells Eyewitness News his father was one of the single most greatest people he had the honor of sharing a moment with. Cale went onto say that everyone his dad met, he touched, and that he "lived in the moment." Whether that was swimming in their backyard pool, cliff diving for his 60th birthday in Costa Rica or skiing in Tahoe. Cale and Cory said their father had a great sense of humor and not one selfish bone in his body. No one knew that more than John Dl Giorno, who rode shotgun with Paul in NewsCopter7. Especially during the September 11th terrorist attacks. "When we shot pictures that were seen by the world, and I was terrified, Paul took over," Del Giorno said. "And Paul's training kicked in, and Paul kept us in the air. He kept us safe and more than anything he kept me calm." Viewers rarely saw Captain Paul, but did get a glimpse of him the day he witnessed the crash of a Channel 4 helicopter. And NewsCopter7's Shannon Sohn considers herself another person lucky enough to have known Captain Paul. "He saw me get married, he saw me have two kids," she said. "He was in the helicopter with me when Chopper 4 crashed. We won an Emmy together. When my dad died, he was by my side. Whether it had been happy or sad, we'd been together." Donna and Paul had been married for nearly 30 years. Paul did two tours in Vietnam. He spent decades flying and spent more than 10 years at the controls of NewsCopter 7. Paul's son Cory is an NYPD officer and says one of his father's proudest moments took place last weekend, watching him receive honors at the department's medal ceremony. Funeral arrangements are still pending. Investigation: In an interview with Eyewitness News, Mohammed Chowdhury insisted last night's crash was an accident that could not have been avoided. He says another car cut him off. He denied he was speeding and he apologized to the Smith family. "I didn't do anything intentionally, it was just an accident," Chowdhury said. He added, "I didn't realize someone was going to make a wide turn in front of my car." He's convinvced surveillance video from at least three differnet cameras will support his version of the story. "It was an accident, and I really really apologize for that," he said. As for the investigation into the crash, sources tell Eyewitness News the 23-year-old driver's taxicab has been confiscated. Chowdhury also had his cell phone taken from him so authorities can determine if he was on the phone at the time of the accident. The taxi driver does have a valid license, but witnesses say he was speeding. He has been a taxi driver for just six weeks. (Copyright 2007 WABC-TV) -------------------------------------------------------------- West Islip news helicopter pilot killed in city BY CHRISTINE ARMARIO | October 9, 2007 http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-litaxi095407167oct09,0,6077721.story (if source link does not work copy and paste into address bar) He'd flown helicopters during the Vietnam War, and later in New York City for WABC-TV, as a news pilot, brought viewers close to countless horrific events: the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Staten Island ferry crash and the recent steam pipe explosion in Manhattan. But on Sunday evening it was doing something comparatively safe - standing on a midtown sidewalk - that put Paul Smith in harm's way. Police say Smith, 60, of West Islip, and his wife Donna, 55, had just left a restaurant when a taxicab jumped the curb and ran over him. Smith was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Yesterday, his wife remained there in stable condition with a fractured leg. A 7-year-old boy had his arm broken in the crash, police said. It was not clear whether he was related to Smith. No charges have been filed against the driver, who tested negative for alcohol. Police were reviewing security cameras and investigating the accident, which took place at Third Avenue and East 40th Street. They said the cabbie said he was swerving to avoid another car. The driver, Mohammed Chowdury, told reporters last night he was forced off the road by a black car that cut him off. He had been driving a cab just five weeks, he said. As word of Smith's death continued to spread among friends and co-workers yesterday, many recalled a talented pilot keen on safety who shoveled his elderly neighbors' driveway and was close to his two grown sons and wife. "No one's doing well, and how could they be?" said Shannon Sohn, a helicopter reporter for WABC-TV who flew with Smith for the last 10 years. "But they're going to pull through it because they were an amazingly strong family ... He raised boys who are going to get their mother through this." Smith's friends said he'd gotten his start in aviation during Vietnam, eventually flying some of the most difficult helicopters to navigate. He completed two tours and continued his love for flying, going on to become a pilot and director of safety for Helicopters Inc., a St. Louis-based company that provides news helicopters. "He was our guardian in that helicopter,"said Kenny Plotnik, vice president and news director for WABC-TV. "Safety was his first, middle and last name." Though he wasn't responsible for taking photographs or reporting, Sohn said, Smith quickly took on a flair for news gathering - eager to be the first at the scene and get the best material, all the while with an eye toward safety. It was Smith, Sohn recalled, who flew her toward the Henry Hudson Parkway in Washington Heights when a retaining wall collapsed onto the roadway in 2005, and when a helicopter for Channel 4 crashed on a Flatbush rooftop in 2004 - coverage of which won WABC-TV an Emmy. Despite any stress, Smith remained cool under pressure. John Del Giorno, whose son also sat next to Smith in the newscopter for WABC-TV, remembered how on Sept. 11, 2001, Smith had calmed his son as they were up in the air when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. Del Giorno, a World War II veteran, said: "He treated me like I was a war hero. I should have been treating him like a war hero." Neighbors in West Islip recalled how proud he was of his two sons - one a recent college graduate, the other a New York City police officer. "It makes you think how fragile life really is," said Diane Belliveau. "This is going to leave a big emptiness on the street." Maria Alvarez and staff writers Rocco Parascandola and John Valenti contributed to this story. ----------------------------------------- |
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| elephant room | Sep 14 2009, 04:14 PM Post #2 |
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UPDATE 9/14/09: Matt has determined that John did not film the second shot on 9/11 ... the shot shown on cnn, abc , and globally viewed under the current name international shot. This forces the honest mind to reflect back on our previous determination about why John was resistant to continuing this caught-off-guard conversation about his 9/11 experience, his acknowledgment(?) of filming the second impact, & ultimately why he wouldn't have called back. shure: You were in the news chopper 7 on the day of 9/11, right? j delgiorno: Yes shure: Ok, were you working the camera? (brief moment of silence) The reason why I am sking you is I am doing an aniversary story on 9/11 for the up comming aniversary. j delgiorno: Ok shure: 'Cause you guys were the only ones to capture the second hit on video right? **j delgiorno: Right, right. Now are you doing this for a station, or .. shure: No I live in Canada and I am just doing for a paper over here. j delgiorno: Oh, Ok. shure: Um, I was just wondering, so you were the camera man at the time? j delgiorno: Yes, I was the reporter and the camera operator. shure: And who was the pilot on that day? Was it Mike Dylan? j delgiorno: I am in the middle of something, I'm gonna give you a call back.* ... the rest of the conversation is John Delgorno pursuing further who shure is affiliated with, and disclosing that it was a FLIR camera he was operating from Chopper 7, not a wescam. *says he will call back and take Shures info. I presume, he would find a website that contains accusation about the witnesses on 9/11 being fakes. **his answer to the detail in shures question "Cause you guys were the only ones to capture the second hit on video right?" ... states "right", but is almost interrupting the question being asked w/ concern for being unaware of who he is talking to & what purposes his answers/voice would be used for. This concern remains through the short lived conversation. |
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