Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/04

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Subject: [Leica] The Pope.
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Apr 4 20:59:47 2005

Ted Grant wrote:

> Hi Eric mon ami,
> Thank you very much for your kind comments and remembering some of the 
> tales of yore. :-) It's a never ending story of moments in life over the 
> years and my good fortune to have been given the opportunities to cover 
> so many parts of the world and survived. :-) Operative word.."survived!" 
> ;-)
  In any event, thanks for sharing your
story with the Pope.  And the
>> PM. Was
>> it Trudeau that you captured sliding down the banister?<,

Ted said...

> Yes it was Trudeau. And once again doing things my way gently and 
> without fuss, I was the only one to get this captured moment of him 
> doing it. :-) One might say a "once in a lifetime opportunity and picture."
> ted

and here is the famous  image of a
sliding Trudeau, taken by Ted... with
Ted Grant at the podium/left...the
keynote speaker... all shown in  a photo
taken by Peter Klein...

http://www.pbase.com/kididdoc/image/23134197

Steve






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