Specialist Ronald Jeter, 34,
and Cincinnati Police Officer Daniel Pope, 34, were shot to death by a man wanted on domestic violence charges Friday, December 5,
1997 as they attempted to arrest him.
I covered the following memorial
service at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. About half way through the
service the the light dimmed with cloud cover and then went even darker. It
became so dark in the afternoon that I had to resort to shooting 800 ASA film.
By the time they carried the casket to the hearse the best I could shoot at was
1/30th of a second at f/2!
It was a remarkable event
and I think that part of why I covered it Ševen without an assignment- was to
help heal the emotional pain it caused.