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A still from the video shot by David Abel.
As part of his Nieman Fellowship, Boston Globe reporter David Abel is taking a class on how to make documentary films. Yesterday he was working on his final project, about Juli Windsor, the first dwarf to run the Boston Marathon. He woke up at 5 o’clock in the morning and went to film Windsor getting ready, then took the bus with her to Hopkinton, where the race starts. He was standing on the finish line, shooting footage of all the runners coming across and waiting for Windsor to come in when the bombs went off. “It was some of the worst things I’ve ever seen,” Abel says. “I just picked up the camera and continued recording, to document what we were witnessing.”
Read Abel’s account of the bombings and watch a video of him discussing the experience, from the Boston Globe.