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Amazing CNN photojournalist dead at 59
Yesterday Margaret Moth died at age 59. She was a former CNN camerawoman. Given her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots, people didn’t always know what to think upon meeting her. She was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.
Margaret Moth sought out, even demanded, assignments in conflict zones. She barely survived being shot in the face in Sarajevo in 1992, only to go back as soon as she was physically able. The multiple reconstructive surgeries that followed, as well as the hepatitis C she contracted from a consequent blood transfusion, were mere obstacles she moved around.
“Dying of cancer, I would have liked to think I’d have gone out with a bit more flair,” she said with a laugh last spring.
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