Level | Item |
Ref No | GEM/4/1/5/1/85/2 |
Title | Nigeria - the fall of Biafra |
Date | nd |
Extent | 14 black and white photographs and 2 captions pages |
Creator Name | Gemini News Service; 1967-2002; news agency |
Description | Black and white photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Biafra. Taken by Richard Hall on staff of GNS. Editor of Times of Zambia, founder of Zambia Mail. Got the last plane out of Biafra to Sao Tome and phoned Derek Ingram with story of fall of Biafra about noon on Saturday. Biggest exclusive GNS ever had. Ran as lead story in Sunday Times. GP280 - Woman with two babies. GP281 - Priest crouched next to a woman and two children. GP282 - Group of refugees carrying their belongings in bowls and sacks. GP283 - Priest handing food sachets to a woman and child. GP1594 - Refugee supplies carried away by women (2 copies) GP1595 - Irish Father D'Arcy supervising the distribution of food for refugees GP1596 - A Biafran soldier points to mass graves in Owerri GP1597 - Children watch as egg yolk is measured out in handfuls for refugees GP1598 - Secretary of the Biafran Atrocities Commission looks at the skulls of people reported shot by Nigerians GP1599 - A grave digger in Owerri heaps up skulls of victims GP1600 - A Sister with car GP1601 - A captured soldier of the rebels is guarded by a Federal troop GP1602 - The remains of a house at Ogoja after being bombed by Federal troops |
Access Status | Open |
Format | Photograph |
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