Diana's death: AP journalists remember it

It was a heat Saturday evening and a bunch of journalists had gathered at a Paris building to fancy the last weekend of summer.

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At someday past hour, phones round the table began to ring

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ostensibly all quickly — as news DEsks contacted reporters and photographers to alert them

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that aristocrat Diana’s automobile had crashed within the Pont de l’Alma tunnel.

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Here’s however the news of Diana's death unrolled within the early hours of August.

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31, 1997, and also the days that followed as told by journalists World Health Organization coated the story for The Associated Press.

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Jocelyn Noveck, then Associated Press news editor in Paris:

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“We were paying the bill and every one of a fulminant there was this cacophony of mobile phones going off.

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the primary one that went off was a British reporter's, a British photographer,

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and he simply got up and began running. and also the remainder of U.S. known as out, `What happened?

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And he simply aforementioned, `The aristocrat of Wales! Crash!’ so unbroken running."

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