2s book24, on cspan tv. next, Pulitzer Prizewinning photographer talks with a 15torian about his more than year long photography career. Time ase topics, his president gerald fords chief photographer. The center for creative photography at the university of arizona and bank of america hosted this event. Thank you all for coming here. It is a thrill to see you here. Said, i am thrilled to be leading arizona arts. The core of our mission in arizona arts is to ensure that all students regardless of major have meaningful experiences and the archive will further that andion by engaging impacting students across our university and transforming ways. The acquisition of this archive is a prime example of our commitment to integrating the arts into all aspects of the University Experience and to making the university of arizona a true arts destination areas tonight, we are in for such a treat as we hear from two Pulitzer Prize winners. This evening is only the beginning as dr. Robin said, looking ahead, david will photography h faculty and arts, behavioral sciences, and others from across our campus. To activate this archive as a resource for Student Learning and research. I am deeply proud that the center for creative photography is going to be home for this archive. I especially want to extend my gratitude to any breckenridge director of the center for all of her work. [applause] for making this center the jewel in the crown of what we imagine arizona arts to be. Remarkable event would not be possible without the support of our presenting sponsor, bank of america. I was like to ask you to help me in welcoming the tucson market president bank of america. Thank you very much. Thank you. It is my pleasure to welcome and thank you for being with us tonight. I like to thank the university of arizona and the center of creative photography for their hard work hard work and partnership. At bank of america, we asked the question what would you like the power to do . Hear is towe often build strong and thriving communities. It is exciting to hear about this partnership that the university of arizona has developed with the arts and with David Hume Kennerly. We believe in the power of the ,rts to help economies thrive educate and in which societies, and create Greater Cultural understanding. To embrace ander appreciate peoples background, culture, heritage, and experiences which help to strengthen communities. Tonight, David Hume Kennerly and jon meacham will highlight some of the most important cultural and political issues of our time. Will together, they discuss the importance of photography in culture, and the way it bears witness, helps us understand complex issues, evokes emotion, and leads to a Greater Knowledge of our world. I am proud to support and celebrate the Great Partnership bank of america has david. He has been a longtime partner not only working with our Senior Executives and board of directors but he has also traveled around the United States and to other countries covering our extensive social responsibility programs such as our Global Ambassadors Program and our partnership with vital voices. Partnership,enure david has created a vast archive for bank of america documents our Corporate Culture and among many other things, the photos underscore how we can conjure be jarred our local communities and the customers we serve. That workingme with us has been a Great Partnership in its own right. We also feel the same about him. It is for that reason that we are proud to sponsor this wonderful event. Be extendingg to this Partnership Bank of america has with david to include the university of arizona and the center for creative photography. These partnerships will ensure that david historic work is shared with the University Community and beyond to provide a unique perspective on history that helps create greater insight of iconic events. Without further ado, i want to thank you again for being here tonight and i hope that through tonights presentation, you will see how photography can help see a different perspective to create insight, open up dialogue the cultural political issues of our time. Thank you. [video] for more than 50 years, David Hume Kennerly has documented history with his camera. His singular perspective and relentless determination have helped kennerly create unforgettable images of the powerful and the powerless alike. The David Hume Kennerly archive is unparalleled for its depth and breadth. It takes a sweeping look at history in the making, the people who made it, and the most important events of our time. It all started with a cap. Our family cat. I took a picture of her when i was 10 years old. That photo got me excited about the photo idea of capturing what was going on around me. I was always dreaming about being somewhere other than where i was at the moment. Howard fineman, said David Kennerly is as good as it gets in a craft he defined. I was in saigon when i got a telex. Pulitzerhas won the prize for photography. In typical fashion, it added need comment. Vietnam was the biggest story of my generation. Document obligation to the story that was killing so many of us. Vietnamame i took in went straight to my heart. Photographer be a and im fortunate to be one who went into war and cannot alive. Vietnam,t back from watergate was the big story. Fordk a picture of gerald that ended up on the cover of Time Magazine after nick and pick 10 to replace Vice President agnew had resigned. To me beingectly the chief white house retarder for. Photographer. Micawber bunch of said kennerlys work is more than just photography, it is history. Is anyle ask if there world event that i regret not shooting. Of course. Everything i missed. It wasnt much. Every photographer, no matter what they do, provide a service which is to give insight into who we are. And what makes us tick. You will find those secrets and the photographs. Ansell adams said kennerly set forth a positive testimony that photography as a language can speak truth. Journalists, photographers are the ones to keep us informed. Are the truth tellers. My job is to show people what they dont want to see and its how they find out what is real. A great photo is one that makes you set up and pay attention. There are certain pictures that you see that never go out of your mind. Im going to keep shooting until the dad died. I will never stop being curious and i will never put down my camera. Ladies and gentlemen, please and davidn meacham hume kennerly. [applause] after that, we dont have to do anything else. [laughter] welcome to the only funeral i have ever been to where the corpse is still breathing. [laughter] david and i are both the episcopalian we are two of the last six in america. This is our first bar mitzvah. This is going to be a remarkable evening. Folks who aret of known by one name. Bono, madonna. Then there are some who have three names. Lisa marie presley. [laughter] j edgar hoover. And David Hume Kennerly. Torequires the three names capture the greatness of the man who is sitting with us tonight. [applause] david thank you. I am honored to be here. Awas davids editor like being that Radar Operator of pearl harbor. He was an uncontrollable force. And an evend longerterm admirer. This will surprise some of you i was an audit child. [laughter] odd child magazine. , covers i remember his Time Magazine covers from long ago. He bumped Matthew Brady out of the way to get that lincoln shot. At doingnobody better what he does and the remarkable thing is in many ways, he invented the genre of which he is the master which is that of being in the room. David thank you. Now we will sing a hymn for our funeral. You might wonder why my archive is here. Jon tell us why we are here. David the university of Arizona Center for creative photography is the Perfect Place for i think , and by the way i want to thank rebecca kennerly, my wife without whom this would not have happened. [applause] my three sons are here one of them was playing the violin on stage. [applause] he end [indiscernible] also did the music for the video that you saw. The otherlayed and two boys are here. [applause] they all missed out on a Great University im sorry they didnt go here. Thats how it goes. The reason i take pictures are so people can see them. Thats the whole point for me. Its important for students and historians to have access to these photographs. Im going to slide this forward. In the creative record, if we didnt have photographs, and history from the start of photography of the early 1800s, we know so much more because of them. Myhink i should talk about first big record creating thing. I could have been a student here. Roberts old covering kennedys trip to portland, oregon. This is my first major assignment i worked for the oregon journal. I was given the assignment to cover kennedy come in a 1966 and he was in a labor hall and it was jampacked and i couldnt get in the room. That was going to be a real problem because you being an editor dont like coming people coming back saying i didnt get the story. So i panicked, but i saw this photographer sitting at the edge of the crowd and he was traveling with kennedy and he must have sensed my desperation. I said how do you get to the crowd . He said hang on to make it. Through the crowd and he got to this place. This is where i am. With Robert Kennedy. He said this is where you going to get your best shot. You see the crowd, the candidate. This is the angle i had. In a closer upshot from the same these photosday stand up for me. What happened after this, it affected my life in a profound way. Followed the motorcade at the portland airport, there was a d. C. Three on the tarmac with the prepared propellers twisting and it was Robert Kennedys plane. The photographer of life magazine went in, the door closed and the plane took off. I have never had a feeling like that. I wanted to be on that plane and see where he was going to go anywhere history goes. Had he followed history . That was a huge thing for me. Jon so you were in the room from 1966 to 1968 which is more than half century ago. That began to shape everything after. 1968 is in many ways the beginning of the era in which we live. Two years later, i got on that plane and this photograph here was taken by a local photographer. It is right here in tucson. Kennedy came in from new mexico to hear to give a speech than it was here in centennial hall. There were two locations for that then he went to window rock where he visited eight never hope reservation. Meas with him and this is taking a photograph of him getting off of the plane with ethel kennedy. We figured it was march 29. It was friday, march 29, 1968 which i could argue is the beginning of the most significant week of the modern era. Rfk is here with kennerly. Lyndon johnson gets out of the race to this later. King delivered his final sunday sermon at washington Nasa National cathedral. Then he was shot in memphis. Bobby puts on his brothers overcoat and announces the death to that crowd in indianapolis. In almost every conceivable way, you have the end of an old democratic order, the murder of dr. King, and the hope that was bloody kennedy. Bobby kennedy. Two months later, i was working for upi in los angeles and i was at the Ambassador Hotel with Robert Kennedy. If you minutes before that, i was upstairs and i talked to Robert Kennedy and he was being interviewed. Another was up there also. Coveri went downstairs to you can talk about what happened there. He lost oregon. He won in california. Jon he only got in the race a few you weeks before he came here. Jim mccarthy is the one who gets the credit for bringing bobby into the race because johnson was weak. Surprises lbj in new hampshire. Bobby gets in. Heardst words which you were its on to california chicago with when there. He didnt know if he could get the delegates against humphrey. This is essentially last picture of Robert Kennedy alive. He gave a little quick quick sign and went into the kitchen when he was shot. Made an incredible photograph. One of my colleagues was with him also. I heard that something had happened so i ran outside and i saw ethel in the back of the ambulance. I took this photo through the ambulance door. It was shocking to me what had happened. It was clear i didnt see the senator after that. Really made me feel bad. It was 21 years old when i did it and it was the idea of intruding on some reflect that. Thats not something i like to do or i dont think anybody does what i did it. I asked mrs. Ter, kennedy, i told ethel how bad i felt she said dont worry, you were doing your job. She understood. Those people had lived in the public life forever. Day, theafter this family invited me to be at the graveside with them to celebrate the life of Robert Kennedy on the day of his death. This is the picture i took of ethel. You can see, being a photographer is about getting through the veneer of peoples souls. She had lived through so much. And the this one moment sadness is evident. Our theme and the homework of your career has been being in the room. What does that mean . David it means to me that i am the other person at a place where history says i will give you an example, when george and meets gerald r. Ford they talk about him possibly becoming the Vice President of the United States. The rnc chairman at a rough time. I was in there and history says the two men met privately and that was it but i was the third person. Like being as photographer or it means never repeating stories. Subjecthe trust of the not talking about what you hear. President ford once said my gravestone should read here lies the worst source of washington. They trusted me. In the room also means in the theater of war. Idea of being in the room. My whole life has been trying traveling trend to get intimate moments or big moments. I think one of the remarkable things about what you have done is, you were in that room with george h. W. Bush and gerald r. Ford. We is to just call him george bush back then. David george w. Bush was that a keg party back then. That was the highest point in our system. Yet you went to the places where the decisions made in those rooms had reallife implications. David thats right. John and i worked together in newsweek and this was my first which really killed my relationship with bob dole. [laughter] as you remember well. Was i first met john, i meeting with the editor of in 1995 wanting me to work for the magazine and cover the campaign. Andmeacham walks and Maynard Parker said i would like you to meet jon meacham our nation editor. I thought he was an intern taking coffee orders. He was 25 or 26 years old. You have probably been carted most of your life. Bit of hair dye now. I tried to use that. David at least people have not referred to you as [indiscernible] [laughter] the first is one of we ended up with a fantastic relationship. He is the guy who was taking the pictures that i was taking. With the bob dole picture and the bill clinton picture, when youre the guy receiving these images in washington, its a threepronged test. You have to have the image, the all have tohe ethos wind up. I would say this behind his back, no one ever produced what we needed better than david did. Ae bob dole cover was at particularly glum moment in his early campaign. He would call to complain and you knew who it was because he referred to himself as tall. [laughter] bob dole is mad. [laughter] sorry, senator. Then, bill clinton this is little rock area it jon yes david yes little rock election night. Bob dole was shaken by the cover because it said doubts. On formerpping in president bush and governor bush and they were sitting together and he pointed at me and said David Kennerly just about cost me five points in the polls. [laughter] he was really mad. Marriage, whathe percentage of your photographs have been published . Say maybe. 1 of my pictures. The incredible things about having the archive. People can go back and look at the pictures that have hopefully they will be scanned online. The context of all of these other people in the room, thousands and thousands of pictures that you have never seen any good chance to go back and say well theres dick cheney when he was chief of staff of staff of the white house. Before he became darth vader. It [laughter] he had most of his own body parts then. [applause] center for what the creative photography has here. This is the raw material of what people like me do. Its more valuable in many ways than oral history or some of the documents because you can actually, people like me spend time trying to recreate what a scene looks like. Imagine a world which you now have here where you can go see what it looked like. Of the wrought material that, imagine if we had david tried to shoot the Constitutional Convention but couldnt get credentialed. [laughter] they would let me in. Jon imagine having the photographs of that. Thats what this is so much about. The arc of the Clinton Presidency is absolutely clear. David little rock after he won the second election, they were watching photographs. Television. He had gotten through his difficulties and this was the lead picture of newsweek area the the next photographic goes this is after the Monica Lewinsky business. He said i dont think theres any fancy way to say that i have sinned. I love having print on my photos. Suddenly yo