Dana Stone

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Dana Stone (born 1939 in North Pomfret, Vermont; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia) was a U.S. photo-journalist best known for his work for CBS during the Vietnam War.

Along with his colleague Sean Flynn, Stone was captured by the Vietcong on April 6, 1970 after leaving Phnom Penh on rented Honda motorbikes to find the front lines of fighting in Cambodia. Investigations by fellow photojournalist Tim Page, reported in the UK Sunday Times on 24 March 1991, indicate that Page and Flynn were taken first to the village of Sangke Kaong, and then to other villages before being handed over to the Khmer Rouge. Page and a TV documentary maker tracked down an empty grave in a village known as Bei Met that had allegedly been the final resting place of two foreigners. Forensic examination of the few remains left in the grave suggested they belonged to a tall man and a short man – consistent with the appearance of Flynn and Stone respectively – and that both had met a violent end.