Mother Theresa

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A week after the funeral of Diana was the funeral for Mother Theresa in Calcutta. Sadly, so much attention was paid to Diana that the funeral of Mother Theresa got comparatively little coverage. I was at the stadium where the service was held and where Mother Theresa lay in state in an open coffin before the worlds dignitaries.

My transmission was for ABC, the biggest news channel in the States and we were the only channel to have a link from the stadium apart from the locals. When the local Indian outside broadcast lost pictures in the middle of the service, we were the only channel getting pictures out via my uplink.

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