Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kennedy Photographer
From: "Glen M. Robinson" <gmrobinson@imation.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:48:01 -0600
 
Mark Newport <newport_m@utpb.edu> on 11/06/98 08:27:06 AM

Please respond to leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

To:   leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
cc:    (bcc: Glen M. Robinson/DSP/Imation)
Subject:  Re: [Leica] Kennedy Photographer





>>During the Kennedy administration, a young photographer gained a
>>reputation for taking some great shots of the president and his family.
>>One that struck me then - and still impresses me - is that he used a
>>Leica rangefinder camera and was said to have credited his ability to
>>get in close and take shots with such feeling to the silent shutter and


I believe the photographer that you are speaking about served during the
Ford administration instead of the Kennedy administration.  President Ford
gave him virtually free reign.  I remember the touching picture that he
took of the Fords hugging after the breast cancer operation of Betty Ford.

Glen Robinson