Of arizona and bank of america. Thank you, president robins and thank you all for coming here tonight. Its a thrill to see you here in Centennial Hall and as dr. Robbins said, we have ambitious plans to think about the arts in new and transformative ways here on campus. I am thrilled to be leading arizona arts and our new gateway to arts experience, assets and Educational Programs at the university of arizona. The core of our mission in arizona is to ensure that all students, regardless of major have meaningful experience in the arts and the david human can early change in transform five ways it is a prime example to integrating the arts into all aspects of the University Experience and to making it a true arts destination. Tonight, were in for such a treat as we hear from two Pulitzer Prize winners john medium in kenneth you can early as doctor robbins said, david will collaborate and work closely with faculty in aerz arz arts and the college of soech and behavioral, archive as an Invaluable Research for Student Research and for research. I am deeply proud that the center for creative photography will be home to this archive. The leadership and staff of the Center Putting countless hours working with david and his team to make this acquisition possible and im really, really grateful for their efforts in hard work. I specially want to extend my gratitude to director broken redirect are the center for all her work you. [applause] not only her work on this project but making the center in many ways the jewel in the crowd of what we mentioned arizona arts will be. This evenings remarkable event would not be possible without the sponsor bank of america and i would like ask you to help me to welcome adrian romero, tucson market president bank of america. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] thank you, andy. Good evening. On behalf of bank of america, it is my honor to welcome and thank you for being with us tonight. I also want to thank the university of arizona doctor robins and the center for creative photography for all their hard work and partnership in planning of tonights events. At bank of america we ask the question, what would you like the power to do . A response we often hear is to build strong and thriving communities. So its exciting to hear about this partnership that the university of arizona has developed with the arts and with david hume kenearly because we believe in the power of the arts to help economies thrive, educate and enrich societies and create Greater Cultural understanding. Art has the power to help individuals embrace and appreciate peoples background, culture, heritage and experiences which helps to strengthen communities. Tonight, david hume kenearly and john meacham will highlight some of the most important cultural and political issues of our time. Together david and john will discuss photography and 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 that bank of america has with david. Hes been a longtime partner not only working with our Senior Executives and our board of directors and hes traveled around the United States and to other countries covering our extensive social Responsibility Program such as our Global Ambassadors Program and our partnership with vital voices. Through our tenyear Partnership David has created a vast archive for bank of america and among other thing, photos underscore how we contribute to the local communities and the customers that we serve. So now david told me that working with us has been a Good Partnership in its own right and we also feel the same about him. So its for that represent that we are proud to sponsor this wonderful event. It is exciting to be extending 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 davids 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. So 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 and invoke a greater understanding of some of the most important cultural and political issues of our time. Thank you. [applause] for more than 50 years David Hume Kennerly has documented history with his camera, his singular perspective and relentless determination have helped kennerally 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 some of the important events of our time. It all started with a cat. Our family cat. I took a picture of her when i was 10 years old. That early photo got me excited about what was goingcapturing what was going on around me. I was always dreaming of being somewhere other than where i was at the moment. Howard feinman, former newsweek chief Political Correspondent says kennerly is as good as it gets in a craft that he defined. I was in saigon when i gotta tell extreme upi headquarters can early has won a Pulitzer Prize for photography and in typical fashion, need soonest comment. Vietnam was the biggest story of my generation. I felt an obligation to document the story that was killing so many of us. Every frame i took in vietnam went straight to my heart. Im proud to be a photographer, and im fortunate to be one who went into war and came out alive. When i got back to vietnam, watergate was the big story. I took a picture of gerald are for that ended up on the cover of time after nixon picked him to replace Vice President agnew who had resigned. That led directly to me becoming the chief White House Photographer. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said ken earlys work is more than just photography. Its history. People ask if theres any world event that i regret not shooting. Of course, everything i missed, but it wasnt much. Every photographer, no matter what they do, provide a service and that is to give insight into who we are, and what makes us tick. You will find those secrets in the photographs. Ancell adams said kennerly puts forth that a positive testimony that photography as a language, can speak truth. Journalists, photographers are the people who keep us informed. Were the truth it truth tellers. My job is to show people what they dont want to see and its how they find out whats real. A great photo is one that makes you sit 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 day i die. I will never stop being curious and i will never put down my camera. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jon meacham and David Hume Kennerly. After that, we dont have to do anything else. Welcome to the only funeral i have ever been to where the corpse is still breathing. David and i laughs are both the episcopalian we are two of the last six in america. This is our first bar mitzvah. This is going to laughs be a remarkable evening. There are a lot of folks who are known by one name. Cher, bono, madonna. Then there are some who have three names. laughter lisa marie presley. J edgar hoover. And David Hume Kennerly. It requires the three names to capture the greatness of the man who is sitting with us tonight. applause david thank you. I am honored to be here. I was davids editor like a being that Radar Operator of pearl harbor. He was an laughs uncontrollable force. A dear friend and an even longerterm admirer. This will surprise some of you i was an odd child. I remember his Time Magazine covers from long ago. I thought his coverage of antietam was particularly strong. laughter he bumped Matthew Brady out of the way to get that lincoln shot. There is nobody better at doing what david 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. Jon now we will sing a hymn for laughs our funeral. You might wonder why my archive is here. Tell us why were here. University of Arizona Center for creative photography is the Perfect Place for i think, and by the way, i want to thank rebecca can early my wife without whom this would not have happened. My three sons are here, one of whom was playing the violin on stage. He in truman last song also did the music for the video that you saw. Composed, played brian cannoli is here and the other two boys. They all missed out on a great university, im sorry they didnt go here. Thats how it goes. But the reason i take pictures or so people can see them. Thats the whole point of the drill for me. Its important for students and historians to have access to these photographs. Im going to slide this forward here. 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. I think i should talk about my first big record creating thing. This is may i couldve been a student here. 1819 years old covering Robert Kennedys trip to portland, oregon. This is my first major simon, i worked for the oregon journal. I was given the assignment to cover kennedy coming in in 1966 and he was in labor hall and i got there and it was jampacked and i couldnt get in the room. That was going to be a real problem is you being an editor dont like people coming back and saying i didnt get the story. Its a nonstarter. So i kind of panicked, but i saw this photographer standing on the edge of the crowd and he was traveling with kennedy and i went over to him and he must have sensed my desperation. I said, how do you get into these rooms, how do you get to this crowd . He said hang on to me kid. He slides through the crowd any got up to this place. And this is where i am. So im there with Robert Kennedy. Not only he said this is where you gonna get your best shot kids. You see the crowd, you see the candidate. And this was the angle that i had. Or a closer upshot from the same spot at these days to this day these photo stand up for me. But what happened after this effect in my life in a profound way. I follow the motorcade out to the Portland Airport there was an old d. C. Three with the propellers on the tarmac. Was Robert Kennedys plane but the photographer of the life magazine bill amperage he went, in the door closing the plane took off. Ive never had a feeling like that. I wanted to be on a plane, i want to see where history goes, how do you follow history . That was a huge thing for me. So you are in the room in a periods 1966 to 68 which is now remarkably more than half a century ago. That began to shape everything after. 1968 is in many ways the beginning of the era in which we live. It is. Two years, later i did get on a plane in this photograph here was taken by local photographer is right here in tucson. Kennedy came in from new mexico to here to give a speech and he was here in Centennial Hall. There were two locations for that then he went to win iraq, arizona where he visited a navajo reservation. I was with him and this is me taking a photograph of him getting off of the plane with ethel kennedy. Right after that we figured it was march 29th. It was, friday march 29th, 1968 which i can argue was the beginning of the most significant week of the modern era. Rfk is here with ken early. That wasnt at that time note is the most significant part. It is now. But Lyndon Johnson gets out of the race two days later. Martin luther king delivered his final sunday sermon at Washington National cathedral two days later. Four days after that he was shot to death of side room three or six at the motel in memphis. Bobby puts out his brothers brothers overcoat announces kings deaf to that crowd in indianapolis. And so, in almost every conceivable way, you have the end of an old democratic order, the murder of dr. King, and the hope that was bobby kennedy. Then two months later, i was working for upi in los angeles and i was at the Ambassador Hotel with Robert Kennedy. Just a few minutes before that, i was upstairs and i talk to Robert Kennedy and i took some pictures of him sandra van oconnor was interviewing him briefly passed away. The letters was up there too. Then i went downstairs to cover the rally. You can talk about what happened there. He lost oregon, one in california. He only got in the race a few weeks before he came here. Member jean mccarthys won against a credit for bringing bobbing in the race because johnson was weak. Mccarthy surprises lbj in new hampshire. Bobby gets in his last words what you heard were its onshore sits on the chicago and lets win their. He didnt know if he could get the delegates against humphrey. So this is essentially the last picture of Robert Kennedy alive. He gave this little quick the sign and went into the kitchen where bill at bridge was there when he was shot by certain. Made an credible photograph. One of my colleagues was with him also. I heard something to happen so iran outside and i saw ethel in the back of the ambulance. I took this photo through the ambulance door. It was shocking to me to see what happened. It was clear but i didnt see the senator after that. This picture really made me feel bad. I was 21 years old when i did it and the idea of intruding on somebodys grief like that, thats not something i like to do or i dont think anybody likes to do, but i did it. Many years, later i asked mrs. Kennedy, i told ethel about i felt, she said dont worry, you were doing your job. She understood. Those people have lived in the public life forever. 50 years after this day, the 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 a vessel. You can see, being a photographer about getting through the veneer of people souls. She had lived through so much. I caught this one moment and the sadness is evident. Our theme really the hallmark of your career has been being at arlington, being in the room. What does that mean . It means to me that i am the other person at a place or history always says, you know ill give you an example of it, for instance when george bush meets gerald are ford the president and they talk about him possibly becoming the Vice President of the United States. Bush was the rnc chairman in a very rough time i would say. One second prize. Yeah really. I was in there and history says the two men met privately and that was it but i was the third person. To me, this is like being a photographer means never repeating stories really. Having the trust of the subject not talking about what you hear. President for once said my gravestone should ride here lies the worst source in washington. laughter in the room means also in the theater of war. But they trusted me. My whole life has been about traveling around the world trying to get into the big moments. I think one of the remarkable things about what youve done is, you are in that room with George Herbert walker bush and gerald are for. We just used to call on george bush back then. He was at a tech party at that time. laughter he would tell you. That he would tell you. That. Thats the pinnacle of power of a man who become cia director. That was the powerful. That was his highest point. You went to the places where the decisions made in those rooms had real life implications. Thats right. By the way, john and i Work Together at news week in this was my first cover which really killed my relationship with bob dole. laughter as you remember well. When im first met john, i was in a meeting with the editor of news week who was in 1995 one and need to work for the magazine and cover the 96 campaign. Mitchell walks in a manner parker said i would like you to meet john meet each of our nation editor. I thought he was an intern taking coffee orders. He was 25, maybe 26 years old and look way younger. Youve probably been carded most of your life right . Ive a bit of hair diana. So i try to use a. Thats ok leads people havent referred to as roger will. laughter this photo is one of the first, simon working with Howard Freeman week ordered earlier. We ended up with a fantastic relationship. Hes the guy whos picking the pictures that i was taking. With the dole picture in the clinton picture, when youre the guy back in washington receiving these images, its really a kind of three prong test right. You have to have the image, the words, and the ethos all have to line up. I would say this behind his back, no one ever produced what we needed better than david did. The dole cover was up particularly glow moment in his early campaign. He would call a complaint and you always knew exactly what was because he always referred to himself as bob dole. Bob dole is mad. laughter sorry, su