The press was there also, at the edge of the cemetery, doing things with telephoto lenses and shotgun microphones.

These days, high-tech directional microphones, what they called shotgun microphones, could pick up voices clearly from hundreds of feet away.

Little of what he saw in movies was based on any truth, but he thought shotgun microphones were.

Couldn't they have someone in their entourage point a shotgun microphone at them from ten feet away?

He eavesdrops on their conversation with a shotgun microphone, and learns that he was not supposed to have survived the robbery.

Next time, I'll have a shotgun microphone and a tape recorder.

This device had a tiny TV screen which would display sound patterns picked up by a shotgun microphone which was also in the pack.

"You look nice today," Chip told her, his words imperfectly captured by the hidden shotgun microphone.

But there had to be half a dozen FBI agentswatching, maybe one with a shotgun microphone to record the exchange.

Fritz Sennheiser (b. 1912), engineer and inventor of the shotgun microphone.