Charles Horman
| Charles Horman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Charles Edmund Lazar Horman May 15, 1942 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 1973 (aged 31) Santiago de Chile |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Joyce Horman |
| Parent(s) |
Elizabeth Horman (mother) Edmund Horman (father) |
Charles Edmund Lazar Horman (May 15, 1942 – September 18, 1973) was an American journalist documentary filmmaker killed during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet that deposed the socialist president Salvador Allende. Horman's death was the subject of the 1982 Costa-Gavras film Missing.
In June 2014, a Chilean court ruled that the US played a "fundamental" role in Horman's murder. In January 2015, two former Chilean intelligence officials were sentenced in the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi.
Horman was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth Horman and Edmund Horman. He was an only child and attended the Allen-Stevenson School, where he was a top student in English as well as an excellent cellist; he graduated in 1957. He then graduated cum laude (top 15%) from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1960 and summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1964, where he was President of Pendulum literary magazine. Working as filmmaker at King TV in Portland Oregon, Charles conceived the short documentary "Napalm" which took a Grand Prize at the Cracow Film Festival in 1967.
Upon returning to New York City, Charles wrote articles as an investigative journalist for magazines in the United States such as Commentary and The Nation, and newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, and worked as a reporter in 1967-68 for INNOVATION magazine.
Charles protested the Vietnam War at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and was honorably discharged from United States Air Force National Guard 1969.
In December 1971, Charles and wife, Joyce, left New York to journey to Chile. The pair studied Spanish in Cuernavaca, Mexico at the Ivan Illich school for a month, before proceeding southward through Central America.
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