Background
Kurt Schork was born in Washington, District of Columbia
Kurt Schork was born in Washington, District of Columbia
He graduated from Jamestown College in 1969, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar later that year—the same time as future United States President Bill Clinton.
He was killed in an ambush while on an assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone together with cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Spain, who worked for Associated Press Television. Two other Reuters journalists, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis were injured in the attack in which Schork died. Schork worked as a property developer, a political adviser, and then chief of staff for the New York City Transit Authority before becoming a journalist.
Kurt Schork covered numerous conflicts and wars, including The Balkans, and in Iraq, Chechnya, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sri Lanka, and East Timor.
Admira"s and Boško"s relationship defied the ethnic hatred which followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. After being shot and killed by a sniper while attempting to flee the area, their bodies remained unreachable on a bridge in no man"s land for eight days as the war raged on.
They became known as Romeo and Juliet as the story of their unshakable love emerged. The original dispatch by Kurt Schork telling the moving story of Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo.
After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, District of Columbia, and half at "Groblje LAV" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork"s acclaimed story.
Mr. Schork has been memorialized posthumously in: the dedication of Kurt Schork Street in Sarajevo, and citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina: in the dedication of the Kurt Schork newsroom at Jamestown College, his alma mater. And in the documentary Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo.
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund and