Some lingered to look at the aftermath - water bottles, blankets, lawn chairs and other items strewn over the road.
"If you look at what happened, look at the aftermath today, the people who arranged the trip in Mexico have been forced out of government," he said.
Along with input from Glenn Greenwald, the film also looks at the aftermath of the revelations, with Snowden moving to Russia while the US, having shown to be spying on its citizens on a vast scale, scrambled a response.
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer has the right instincts, which is to look at the aftermath of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona to see how it might have influenced public discourse around domestic terrorism.
And later this year, "Two Towns of Jasper" will look at the aftermath of the racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr., the Texas man who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck.
The paper*, a sequel to work presented at the 2008 conference, looks at the aftermath of past financial meltdowns to gauge just how bad America's recession might be.The analysis is based on 14 "severe" banking busts, including the Depression as well as the more recent "big-five" crines in the rich world Spain in the late 1970s, Norway in 1987, and Finland, Japan and Sweden in the early 1990s.
Her latest book, Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire, (shortlisted last year for the Samuel Johnson Prize) looks at the aftermath of the American Revolution, following the fortunes of those people who supported and fought for the losing side who sought refuge across the world.
Wake looks at the aftermath of war, and is set around Armistice Day 1920 when the body of the unknown warrior was brought back from France for burial in Westminster Abbey.
