title: Eyewitness: Costume
author: L Rowland-Warne
description: ...a mini museum between the covers of a book. [Eyewitness series] -- <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />These books' striking visual impact will draw in even the most casual readers. [Eyewitness series] -- <i>School Library Journal</i>
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  > For all those who witness and write.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A row of men squatted on their knees, hands bound behind their backs while
  they writhed.
  
  A gunshot.
  
  A bearded man, his shirt torn and blood spurting from his chest through a
  penny-size hole, fell over and made no effort to get back up.
  
  Dead. He had to be.
  
  Blindfolds made from torn shirt cloth covered the eyes of the captives. I
  wondered if the cloth was dark enough to blot out the world or if they could
  see what was coming next. Most of their heads were cocked toward the ground,
  chins pressed against their chests in a posture of resignation. Two of them,
  in a final act of defiance, twisted their heads back and forth to shake the
  blindfolds off their eyes. A voice sternly rebuked them—a barrage of words
  that hit the men like rifle rounds.
  
  The camera drew back and showed the source of the voice: a man whose face was
  c