Jeff Cohen's Indy Media Course Blog Spring 2017

Thursday, April 6, 2017

First "viral video": George Holliday records 1991 LA police beating of Rodney King

Early "citizen journalist" George Holliday records "world's most famous home video." Here's a brief excerpt. 
Posted by jeffco at 4:48 PM
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