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My father passed away about when i was just before my 15th birthday but i knew what i wanted to do the rest of my life and i didnt know how i was going to do it but i was on a mission to try to hook on to the news media somehow and become a part of photo journalism. And i was lucky enough to do that. I got out of the marine corps and had had applied. I think as the boss said to me up in new york, we got so tired of getting letters from you for new jobs with us that we finally just decided to turn the letters off and give you a staff job somewhere. And i ended up coming to austin, texas. And i ...

On display and the journalism archives. I know we could talk a lot about your background and history as a reporter, i want to jump right into your photos of the president. Tell the story how you became the official White House Photographer, how you got the job. Ill give you the long story because its fascinating to me1y because i never really planned on being the White House Photographer. It was an opportunity to presented itself. Back when i was a Staff Photographer at the ap, most of my career was at the journalism newspaper wire Service Business i was assigned to cover the president ial cam...

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 wa...

My father passed away about when i was just before my 15th birthday but i knew what i wanted to do the rest of my life and i didnt know how i was going to do it but i was on a mission to try to hook on to the news media somehow and become a part of photo journalism. And i was lucky enough to do that. I got out of the marine corps and had had applied. I think as the boss said to me up in new york, we got so tired of getting letters from you for new jobs with us that we finally just decided to turn the letters off and give you a staff job somewhere. And i ended up coming to austin, texas. And i ...

On display and the journalism archives. I know we could talk a lot about your background and history as a reporter, i want to jump right into your photos of the president. Tell the story how you became the official White House Photographer, how you got the job. Ill give you the long story because its fascinating to me1y because i never really planned on being the White House Photographer. It was an opportunity to presented itself. Back when i was a Staff Photographer at the ap, most of my career was at the journalism newspaper wire Service Business i was assigned to cover the president ial cam...