Polytechnique massacre: A police photographer recounts the day [Video]

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Montreal crime scene photographer Harold Rosenberg witnessed a lot of horror over his thirty years on the job, though nothing of the magnitude of what he captured with his lens at the Polytechnique on December 6, 1989. He described the day of the Montreal massacre to CTV Quebec Bureau Chief Genevieve Beauchemin.

The following has been edited for length and clarity.

Genevieve Beauchemin: Why were you at the Polytechnique on this day, thirty-five years ago?

Harold Rosenberg: I was working the evening shift. I heard a short news bulletin saying there had been some sort of incident at the Ecole Polytechnique and I mentioned to my wife that it was probably a hostage-taking. I drove an unmarked police car at the time with a radio in it, and equipment and off I went to scene.

As I was driving up, I remember it was snowing very lightly. I …