James Kanka

Yesterday was interesting. About noon The Washinton Bureau got a call from Fox asking for three crews, one at the airport and two at John Kerry’s DC residence, all in an attempt to get a quick interview. In 20 minutes we were out the door. I was sent to Kerry’s house, as a cameraman with two other guys from my work, where we met up with a Fox producer. Fox was the only agency there and having never done a stake out before we were pretty neverous and felt a little “dirty” for waiting outside his house, but as time rolled on, and it did for hours, we got more comfortable. One crew stayed in front and the other crew covered the back door, I was in front and sat across the street on a neighboors stoop who was nice enough to let us sit there. Eventually the FOX live truck showed up then came NBC around 5PM. NBC had only one producer and one shooter (cameraman). It was funny to see the news rivalry. Though through out the day we saw people come and go from the front of the house we never saw Kerry. Almost everyone who passed by and talked with us said, “Kerry never comes in the front.” Apparently he goes in the back way and the only time he used the front enterance was during the presidential campian because the security made him.

Overall it was interesting and I enjoyed being there… mostly because otherwise I’d be just sitting at my desk.