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US TV to show photos of Diana at crash scene
Never-before seen photos of Britain's Princess Diana at the scene of the Paris car crash in which she died are to be broadcast on U.S. television on Wednesday night.
Publication of photos of the last hours of the much-loved princess have hitherto been considered off limits because of the nature of her injuries and out of respect for her two sons, -- princes William and Harry.
CBS said however it would broadcast "photocopies of photos" from the French report on its "48 Hours Investigates" program on Wednesday night as well as making public for the first time some of the details of the police report. CBS did not disclose how it obtained the French report.
Responding to a flurry of media calls, CBS on Wednesday defended its decision to use the pictures. "These photocopies are placed in journalistic context -- an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash -- and are in no way graphic or exploitative," it said in a statement.
Diana's sudden death at the age of 37 in a high-speed car crash in Paris has been the subject of fevered speculation over the years, ranging from rumors that she was pregnant at the time to conspiracy theories that she was murdered along with her lover, Dodi al Fayed, because their relationship was embarrassing to Britain's royal family.
"48 Hours Investigates" said information in the French report would dispel many of the claims and rumors surrounding her death.
U.S. television last month broke another taboo surrounding Princess Diana by airing never-before-heard audiotapes recorded in the early 1990s that exposed the misery and turmoil of her marriagetain's future king, Prince Charles.
The tapes, broadcast in an NBC documentary, were the basis of Andrew Morton's explosive 1992 book "Diana: Her True Story" that led to Charles and Diana's divorce in 1996. |
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