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| Supporters of the Miami family of Elian Gonzalez race to try to block government officials from removing Elian from his Miami home early Saturday morning, April 22, 2000, in Miami. (AP Photo/Pete Cosgrove) - Apr 22 7:35 AM ET |
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| Supporters of the Miami family of Elian Gonzalez try to stop federal officals from entering the Gonzalez home to remove the boy , Saturday, April 22, 2000, in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) |
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| U.S. agents storm the Miami home of Elian Gonzalez in a predawn raid Saturday. The U.S. agents took the boy at about 5:15 a.m. EDT, using surprise and the cover of darkness to end a long and bitter standoff between the boy's Miami relatives. (Marc Serota/Reuters) - Apr 23 11:00 AM ET |
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Wednesday April 26, 2000; 5:35 PM EDT
NBC Cameraman Hospitalized After Elian Raid Beating
Freelance NBC cameraman Tony Zumbado has been hospitalized as a result of injuries sustained when agents for the INS and Border Patrol beat him and his soundman, Gustavo Moller, as they were trying to film the Clinton administration's gunpoint abduction of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez.
Zumbado was the designated pool reporter at the scene, whose video footage from inside the Gonzalez home was to be fed to all major broadcast and cable television networks.
But the beating by gun-toting federal agents left both Zumbado and Moller incapacitated for the duration of the three minute raid, depriving television audiences around the world of live video coverage of the dramatic confrontation.