Overlooked No More: Margaret Gipsy Moth, Fearless CNN Camera Operator

She covered conflicts across the globe, joking after she was injured in Sarajevo that she would be returning to find her missing teeth.

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.

As the former Yugoslavia was splitting apart in 1992, the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo came under attack in what has been described as the longest siege of a city in modern warfare.

Margaret Gipsy Moth, a camera operator for CNN, was on the scene that July to cover the blockade formed by Bosnian Serb troops, who were encircling the city with the intention of taking a portion of it.

But as she and two other CNN journalists were riding in their white van on a stretch of road known as Sniper Alley, they came under fire.

Moth, who was sitting behind the driver, was hit by a bullet that shattered her jaw and tore through the base of her tongue — injuries that left her speech permanently slurred. She would ultimately have 25 surgeries.