
Television news cameraperson Ron Ashmore talks about filming at the site of the West Gate Bridge collapse on 15 October 1970.
He also mentions being at the bridge construction site the day before the collapse and sensing that there were problems.
John Fife interviewed Ron Ashmore for the NFSA Oral History program in 2013.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.