eyewitness

Examples of eyewitness in the following topics:

• Considerations for Eyewitness Testimony

  • Eyewitness testimony has been considered a credible source in the past, but its reliability has recently come into question.
  • The weapon-focus effect suggests that the presence of a weapon narrows a person's attention, thus affecting eyewitness memory. 
  • Trials may take many weeks and require an eyewitness to recall and describe an event many times.
  • The accuracy of eyewitness memory degrades swiftly after initial encoding.
  • Analyze ways that the fallibility of memory can influence eyewitness testimonies

• Journalistic Standards

  • In addition, events with a single eyewitness are to be reported with attribution.
  • Events with two or more independent eyewitnesses may be reported as facts.

• Range Wars

  • However, eyewitness reports show that sheep were not brought into Pleasant Valley until 1885, two years after the feuding between the Tewksbury and Graham factions began.

• The Imperfect Historical Record

  • In some cases, the only eyewitness reports of an event may be memoirs, autobiographies, or oral interviews taken years later.
  • If written records are missing, historians often attempt to collect oral accounts of particular events, preferably by eyewitnesses, but sometimes, because of the passage of time, they are forced to work with the following generations.

• Solicit Information

  • This is why eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

• Dolley Madison and Washington City

  • James Madison's personal servant, the slave Paul Jennings, was an eyewitness at the age of 15.

• Types of Material on the Internet

  • If you were preparing a speech about the Arab Spring or the 2012 Presidential Election, social media would be invaluable to your research tracking populist sentiment and eyewitness accounts in real-time reporting.

• Eruptions of Vesuvius and Pompeii

  • The morning of the first day, August 24, was perceived as normal by the only eyewitness to leave a surviving document, Pliny the Younger, who at that point was staying at Misenum, on the other side of the Bay of Naples about 19 miles from the volcano, which may have prevented him from noticing the early signs of the eruption.

• The Fall of Constantinople

  • Byzantine historian George Sphrantzes, an eyewitness to the fall of Constantinople, described the Sultan's actions:

• Splitting History

  • In some cases, the only eyewitness reports of an event may be memoirs, autobiographies, or oral interviews taken years later.