Vieira told Goldberg, “The guns look real to me. I would panic if they weren’t real. What would he do if the elephant lunged at him? Yell ‘Bang, bang’?”
Some Owenses supporters have accused ABC News of sensationalism, or maybe even stagedfacts as opposed to accurately reflecting Mark’s actions in relation to poachers in Zambia. Andrew Tkach– The field producer of “Death Games”, who spent a month at the park in 1994 and returned in 1995 – told Goldberg in 2010 that the finished product was an accurate portrait.
Tomlin, then no longer with ABC but still working as a producer, told the writer, “I can clearly tell you that any project I’ve ever been on, any Which program—60 minutesany show — no staging of any events. “
Chris Eversonthe African cameraman, who filmed the scene, broke his years-long silence about it with Goldberg, telling him, “It’s a very complicated story, it’s a very complicated story. very emotional, it was a very bad thing. It was something that never should have happened.”
