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Who killed Paul Guihard?

Friday 30 September 2022

Exactly 60 years ago AFP reporter Paul Guihard was murdered as white rioters protested against the University of Mississippi admitting its first Black student. He was only the journalist killed covering the US civil rights struggle, and mystery still surrounds his death

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Who killed Paul Guihard? Part 2 (podcast)

Friday 5 June 2020

As protests against police brutality and racism roil the United States, AFP remembers one of its own, reporter Paul Guihard, the only journalist killed during the US civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s.

Below please find our 2019 podcast investigation into his killing, which remains unsolved.

 

When President Kennedy delivered the first sentence of his address to the nation in the early evening of September 30, 1962, “James Meredith is now in residence on the campus of the University of Mississippi,” he didn't know that US marshals who had come under attack from protesters all afternoon on campus had started to fire teargas.

Soon a riot exploded on the scene, fueled by hundreds of segregationists who had come to Ole Miss from other states to “defend” it against the enrollment of its first African-American student. AFP reporter Paul Guihard and photographer Sammy Schulman split up to cover the unrest. They had no idea that Guihard would never return alive.

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My French presidential moment

Friday 28 April 2017

"Covering a candidate’s presidential campaign is a blur of rallies and meetings," writes AFP journalist Laurent Kalfala.

"For a photographer, the challenge is to both present a full picture of the campaign and to find different angles to those taken by colleagues and competitors. Amid the blur, there is always a few moments that stand out."

"As France gets ready for the second and final round of its historic 2017 election, seven AFP photographers reflect on their presidential campaign moments of the past, from Pierre Guillaud getting THE shot of Charles de Gaulle voting in 1965 to Philippe Desmazes having his work sent to the garbage bins after Lionel Jospin’s shock defeat in the first round in 2002." 

This is the third installment in our "Recalling the Moment" series. Read the first one here and the second one here.

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'It's not my best photo, but...'

Monday 3 October 2016

Five AFP photographers tell about taking a photo that had an impact on them, be it because it evoked a painful moment from the past, marked a turning point in their career, or changed the way they look at the world.

This is the second installment in our "Recalling the Moment" series. Read the first one here.

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Recalling the moment

Monday 7 September 2015

An AFP photographer takes thousands of pictures each year. Many are forgotten in this permanent flow, remaining only in the memory of computer servers. Others are etched in the minds of their authors. We asked several photographers to tell the story behind a striking picture from their career, of an event that still remains vivid today. 

These tales of a moment in history seen through a photographer’s prism also shine light on the profession of photojournalism.

This is the first part in “Recalling the Moment”, a series by Laurent Kalfala and Sylvain Estibal, in which nine photographers tell us the back story of a picture they still carry with them.

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