My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years, because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. I was very jingoistic when i got there in the beginning. When i got back, i was convinced the war, whatever our good intentions, simply could not be won. Part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is. In the bigger theater, we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. So, t
My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years, because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. I was very jingoistic when i got there in the beginning. When i got back, i was convinced the war, whatever our good intentions, simply could not be won. Part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is. In the bigger theater, we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. So, t
My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years, because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. I was very jingoistic when i got there in the beginning. When i got back, i was convinced the war, whatever our good intentions, simply could not be won. Part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is. In the bigger theater, we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. So, t
Years of the 20th century, by the way. Thats whats interesting. The jim crow rules, thats when they came in, when i talked about that transit, the boycotting the Transit System being segregated in mobile. I mean, up until then it was a very different world. Up until then black people could go to the restrooms. Not that they often had the money to go there, but they could go to white restaurants. So that changed. And the south is at a crucial juncture now, and well see which way things go. [inaudible] okay, thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next up, former white house president ial events director josh king talks about his book, off script an advanced mans guide to white house stage craft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. Mitchell schwartz, andrew frank and steve barr, swaggering advance men who learned the craft on walter mondales campaign against reagan in 1984, served as my role models. They were the democratics answer to Michael Dever during that sum
The marines were very generous to everybody, giving candy to children and inspiring the sense of safety and hope for the future. They were truly the statement of freedom and democracy. There are many tragic images from the war and from my home town. But they were also some good memories and events which should not be overshadowed by the destruction of the war. Today i live in austin with two sons born here and my wife tanya. Im lucky. I am a chairman of magrabbit, inc. , a Global Software Company Founded 25 years ago in austin. We have several offices, but two offices that are dear to me, array, and da nang city. I am personally grateful for the soldiers who risked their lives in the vietnam war and also for the United States of america which had afforded me the opportunity to make the most of my life here in austin and this country. Ladies and gentlemen, David Hume Kennerly had been shooting in the frontlines of history for 50 years. At age 25 years, he is one of the youngest winners