CBS Evening News - 1997-09-03

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[0:00] of life. Wise buys, weeknights only on

[0:03] NewsCenter 6 at 6.

[0:09] Photographer at the crash scene tells

[0:12] what happened, what he saw, and

[0:14] describes how he ended up at the scene

[0:16] of the crash. I arrived after the

[0:19] police. I arrived after the emergency

[0:21] people.

[0:23] And I'm charged now, and I cannot accept

[0:26] that.

[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:33] with Dan Rather reporting tonight from

[0:35] London.

[0:37] Good evening from London. Tonight, a

[0:39] side of the Diana death story you

[0:41] haven't heard before. CBS News has a

[0:44] fresh first-person eyewitness to what

[0:48] was going on in that Paris tunnel the

[0:50] night Princess Diana was killed. We have

[0:52] the first interview, an exclusive, with

[0:54] one of the photographers who was there

[0:56] taking pictures. He was arrested,

[0:58] officially named a manslaughter suspect,

[1:00] and could now face full charges. Jacques

[1:03] Langevin, a veteran photojournalist, was

[1:06] released from police custody. He now

[1:08] says that he did photograph Diana

[1:10] outside the Ritz Hotel, but he says he

[1:13] and some others are being scapegoated.

[1:14] He says he never chased Diana's car and

[1:17] found himself at the crash scene 10 to

[1:20] 15 minutes after the accident purely by

[1:22] chance.

[1:24] We knew she was coming out of the hotel.

[1:28] And the same time she

[1:31] come out of the hotel, a car came

[1:33] quickly. Mercedes arrived.

[1:37] So, I shoot pictures

[1:39] Diana leaving the hotel.

[1:41] I shoot her going inside the car.

[1:44] And I shoot picture of the two

[1:47] Mr. Al-Fayed and Diana inside the car

[1:50] through the window. Through the window.

[1:52] When they came out

[1:54] I realized you only saw them for some

[1:57] seconds, perhaps a minu

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