Servando Gonzalez Hernandez rose from gofer at a Mexican film studio to become a director in Hollywood. But he may be most remembered in Mexico for film that nobody ever saw. Gonzalez, who died in Mexico City on Saturday at age 85, was the government's chief documentary filmmaker when "a military type" asked him to set up six cameras around a Mexico City plaza in 1968 and film the events below. What occurred was the Tlatelolco massacre, when soldiers opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators and — by varying accounts — 25 to 350 people died in one of the most controversial events in Mexican history. Gonzalez told the Mexico City newspaper La Jornada last year that the man who hired him appeared after the raw film was developed and took it all away. "He disappeared. I never knew anything about that material," he said. "I haven't...
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