Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sal, I'm not sure if you hear NY-based Alistair Cooke across the pond but his "Letter From America" has been broadcast in the UK (on BBC's World Service too probably) for the past 50 years every Friday night and repeated every Sunday morning... his account of the Bobby Kennedy shooting was very moving too... he was in the room next to the kitchen when it happened and his broadcast included a typically journalistic "just-by-chance-and-as-luck-would-have-it" build-up of how he happened to be there and what followed. Regards, Ed Buziak / Publisher Camera & Darkroom magazine ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk http://www.camera-and-darkroom.co.uk - ---------- >From: "Sal DiMarco,Jr." <sdmp007@pressroom.com> >To: leica-users <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Get the Shot or Walk by >Date: Wed, Apr 12, 2000, 11:53 am > >LUGGERS, > Orginally, I was going to post a response to Kyle's shoot or don't >shoot question, but Scott Stewart's response was COMPLETLY on the mark. > As to the Bobby Kennedy, "This is History" remark. The photographer >was Boris Yaro of the LA Times was said it, not Bill Eppridge. > Yaro shot a similar picture to Bill's but with flash. > If any of you out there get the opportunity to hear Eppridge's Bobby >Kennedy presentation, do it. It is one of the most moving pieces I have ever >seen. >Happy Snaps, > >Sal DiMarco, Jr. >