Newseum will display Virginia Tech camera phone

The cell phone a Virginia Tech student used to capture video and the sound of gunshots outside one of the campus buildings where the massacre occurred last month will be among the new exhibits at the Newseum when the journalism museum opens this fall near the Capitol. The Associated Press reports.

"Jamal Albarghouti a graduate student who e-mailed cell phone video to CNN the day 33 students and professors were killed, donated the phone to the Newseum on April 30.

"He was very interested in it going to a place where it would be publicly displayed in the right manner," said Newseum spokeswoman Susan Bennett. "

emily | 8:17 AM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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