Update Since the conducting of this interview Sports Illustrated has selected Tlumack's photo featuring a fallen Iffrig as the cover for it's upcoming issue.
As a tragic bombing in Boston leaves three people dead including an eight year old boy and more than 100 injured on Monday Piers Morgan Live invited a collection of eyewitnesses and experts to share their individual insights and context.
As hundred of runners approached the finish line of the world famous Boston Marathon a deafening explosion sent the event and the day into chaos.
In position to capture his traditional celebratory photos John Tlumacki instead snapped an image that conveys an entirely different emotion
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Joining Piers Morgan the Boston Globe photographer described the circumstances that lead to his picture
I was focused on a couple children coming over the finish line. And then the blast occurred and everybody was just screaming he explained.
That runner who you're describing fell in front of me and then the Boston police officers that were near him started drawing their guns. It was just a panic on people's faces.
The gentleman to whom Tlumacki refers is Bill Iffrig a 78 year old veteran of 45 marathons. He too talked live with the host explaining the course of events from his perspective
I got down to within 15 feet of the finishing apron and just tremendous explosion sounded like a bomb went off right next to me said the man from Lake Stevens Wash. The shock waves just hit my whole body and my legs just started jittering around. I knew I was going down and so I ended up down on the blacktop.
Watch the clip and listen further as Tlumacki describes some of the specific injuries he witnessed first hand going so far as to refer to it as carnage. Follow Piers Morgan Live on Twitter Follow Piers Morgan Live on Instagram
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