eyewitness reports
Bystander testimony collected
Eyewitness reports are accounts from people who personally witnessed an event.
The term appears most often in journalism and law, where firsthand observation carries special weight: Eyewitness reports described the explosion as deafening.
Such accounts are valued for immediacy but recognized as fallible—memory distorts, perspectives differ, and witnesses may misinterpret what they saw.
- interviewFormal questioning session
- news footageVideo from reported events
- media coverageReporting by news outlets
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
- false memoryBelieved but fictional recall
memory recall · suggestibility · testimony · court testimony · sworn statement · deposition · cross-examination · affidavit · crime scene · fact-checking · memoir · primary source · cognitive bias · photojournalism · breaking news · live broadcast · historical narrative · documentary film
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Scientific material proving crimes
physical evidence · DNA evidence · documentary evidence · circumstantial evidence · material evidence
eyewitness reportshearsay
Unverified secondhand information
speculation · inference · conjecture · gossip · rumors
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Recorded visual material
photographic evidence · audio recordings · official records · CCTV footage · surveillance footage
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