1. Charles Edmund Lazar Horman was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker.
13 Facts About Charles Horman
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Charles Horman was executed in Chile in the days following the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat led by General Augusto Pinochet, which overthrew the socialist president Salvador Allende.
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Charles Horman protested against the Vietnam War at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and was honorably discharged from the Air National Guard in 1969.
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On September 16,1973, six days after the military coup, Charles Horman was detained by Chilean soldiers and taken to the National Stadium in Santiago, which had been converted into an ad hoc prison camp.
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US officials speculated at the time that Charles Horman had been a victim of "Chilean paranoia," but did nothing to intervene.
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Joyce and Edmund Charles Horman donated their extensive files related to their pursuit of justice to the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Charles Horman case was made into the Hollywood movie Missing, directed by Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras.
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The investigation included a four-hour re-enactment of the scene in the Estadio Nacional where Charles Horman was killed, one of 10,000 who suffered there.
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Charles Horman's view was that Department II of the General Staff of the National Defense would have been the organization responsible for Horman's death.
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On March 21,1974, Carvajal ordered Rafael Gonzalez to assist the US Vice-consul in Chile, James Anderson, in the search for Charles Horman's remains for repatriation to the United States.
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Monsalve has been identified by subordinates in the Navy intelligence as the officer who gave the order to arrest and eliminate Arnoldo Camu, the security chief of the Unidad Popular party, an incident that took place around the time Charles Horman was arrested and murdered.
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When Charles Horman asked Ray Davis if he would take him and his friend Terry Simon to Santiago on September 15,1973, Davis reportedly contacted Monsalve to provide "safe passage"; he briefed him on Horman's political background.
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Secondly, he affirmed that Charles Horman was arrested during a routine inspection in 1973; however, elsewhere he stated that Charles Horman's arrest was due to intelligence information provided by then CNI Director Gen.