Graduated high school. I was drafted, went into the air force and they said youre going to be a photographer and thats what i did. Why was that . They said well, at the time, this is 1967, vietnam wars going on, i was drafted, i didnt want to go to the army so i joined the air force. The air force did the aerial photo over North Vietnam so there was a big turn over of air force photo people. So all the guys, 500 guys, its called a flight, and we all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, Lab Processing and still photography. Im valdez, i got still photography which was at the bottom of the list. And i was assigned to the 836combat support group at mcgill air force base in tam pa florida. I worked for the newspaper but the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. I, at 18yearold was photographing three and fourstar generals in meetings and ceremonies. So at a very early point in my photography career was photoing highle
Graduated high school. I was drafted, went into the air force and they said youre going to be a photographer and thats what i did. Why was that . They said well, at the time, this is 1967, vietnam wars going on, i was drafted, i didnt want to go to the army so i joined the air force. The air force did the aerial photo over North Vietnam so there was a big turn over of air force photo people. So all the guys, 500 guys, its called a flight, and we all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, Lab Processing and still photography. Im valdez, i got still photography which was at the bottom of the list. And i was assigned to the 836combat support group at mcgill air force base in tam pa florida. I worked for the newspaper but the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. I, at 18yearold was photographing three and fourstar generals in meetings and ceremonies. So at a very early point in my photography career was photoing highle
Archived his photos. This is just over 70 minutes. All of the president ial photographers come to that job in different ways. Beenof them come in having press photographers covering the campaign. It was 1983 and i was a government photographer. I had been a government photographer since day 1, 1967. I was drafted after graduating from high school into the air force. They told me i would be a photographer, and that is what i did. Time, 1967 the vietnam war was going on. Want to go into the army, so i joined the air force. There was a big turnover of air force photo people. There were 500 guys, it was called flight. We all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, lab processing, and still photography. Still photography was at the bottom of the list. I was assigned to the 836 combat support group in florida. Newspaper buthe the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. At 18 years old, i was photographing generals in meeting
David all of the president ial photographers come to that job in different ways. Most of them come in having been press photographers covering the campaign. I didnt. It was 1983 and i was a government photographer. I had been a government photographer since day 1, 1967. I was drafted after graduating from high school into the air force. They told me i would be a photographer, and that is what i did. At the time, 1967 the vietnam war was going on. I did not want to go into the army, so i joined the air force. There was a big turnover of air force photo people. There were 500 guys, it was called flight. We all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, lab processing, and still photography. Still photography was at the bottom of the list. I was assigned to the 836 combat support group in florida. I worked for the newspaper but the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. At 18 years old, i was photographing generals in meeti
[inaudible conversations] good, evening, everyone, if you could take your seat. Grab a beer and come on over. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight on this rainy night. My name is lili hindy. We are a nonprofit. Theres a little bit of information about us here. We were funded by sebastian younger. We have been operating now for three years and we have trained 264 freelance journalists around the world working in dangerous areas and giving each one medical kits. So by buying a ticket tonight youve donated to our organization, so youre help to go keep journalists save, thank you all very much for that. This series has been going on for about three years now. Weve had a lot of incredible guests. Im really looking forward to tonights talk. We have two very distinguished speakers this evening. We have our usual moderators steve hindy. Steve was a journalists in the middle east, he covered the he was based in cairo but covered the whole region so he was a war correspondent himself and