50 years since military coup toppled Allende in Chile

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled the Allende Government in Chile. On September 11th, 1973, the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende was overthrown, ushering in seventeen years of military rule under Augusto Pinochet. New Zealander, Tom White was 20 years old and in Chile the day the Allende Government collapsed. He witnessed many of the dramatic events surrounding the coup, before his escape from Chile with his sister, aided by the New Zealand Embassy there. He says he's lucky to be alive after a soldier took a shot at him which missed his head by just a metre. White spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.