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Date Posted: 23:55:55 11/30/01 Fri
Author: Shar
Subject: Waco cameraman, Dan Mulloney, Dies at 52.


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Waco Tragedy News

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I hate to say I got this information for the first time
today. Dan passed away last Saturday.


In The Obituaries - Dan Mulloney - Associated Press
November 27, 2001


WACO, Texas (AP) -- Dan Mulloney, a television news photographer who shot footage of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege, died November 24th of natural causes after a lengthy illness, according to his former boss, KWTX-TV news director Rick Bradfield. Mulloney was 52.

He was found dead in his Waco home on Saturday, Bradfield said.

Mulloney began his career in 1984 as a television news photographer at KWTX. His Feb. 28, 1993, images of gunfire and wounded agents at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco drew international attention. Four federal agents were killed. The standoff ended on April 19, 1993, when Mount Carmel burned and dozens of Davidians, including leader David Koresh, died. Bradfield says Mulloney had been out of the TV business for about three years. Mulloney is survived by two daughters, a sister and his stepmother.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-deaths1127nov27.story


Death Of Waco Cameraman Goes Unnoticed
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A veteran TV journalist has chastised his profession for virtually ignoring the recent death of cameraman Dan Mulloney, who, with Jim Peeler, covered the Branch Davidian tragedy in Waco in 1993 -- "arguably, the most dramatic material ever captured by a television news camera."

Wrongfully accused of tipping off the Davidians about the federal raid, Mulloney eventually left TV news, Jim Moore, a PR exec and former Emmy-winning reporter, observed in a letter to the TV industry newsletter ShopTalk, "How did he end up living alone in a two-room walk-up on the edge of downtown Waco, working as a bartender's assistant, after he had the scoop on one of the most significant stories television journalism had developed in decades?" Moore asked.

"The profession he loved had not only not rewarded him, it had chased him away." Noting that Mulloney's death was related to alcoholism, Moore concluded, "I'll concede the point that it is an oversimplification to blame Dan's demise on journalism. But ... the profession has, as a minimum, some culpability in what happened. And no matter how slight that guilt might be, journalism ought to be ashamed."

Funeral services for Mulloney were due to take place in Waco Thursday
(November 29th).

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