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- [J F. Kennedy] We choose to go to the moon,

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and do the other things,

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Not because they're easy,

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but because they're hard.

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I am the greatest.

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- [Announcer] Waiting to see if Maris can hit number 61

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Here's the wind up.

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(crowd cheering) Fastball hit deep to left field,
This is going to be it! way back there,
HOLY COW

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles.

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(crowd cheering)

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- I was hired as a photographer
for LIFE magazine in 1959.

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It was the fulfillment of a
dream I had since I was a kid.

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My first assignments,

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were Khrushchev football games,

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Lyndon Johnson, Adenauer,

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Ben-Gurion, Henry Cabot Lodge,

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Caroline Kennedy's birth,

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Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Lewis,

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Roger Maris, as he broke
Babe Ruth's record,

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John F. Kennedy, Nehru, Adlai Stevenson,

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Dr. Benjamin Spock, the
Cuban missile crisis,

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Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon,

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and of course the JFK funeral.

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I was already by the time LIFE

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ordered me to cover the Cassius fight,

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an experienced magazine photographer.

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I arrived at the famous
5th Street Gym in Miami

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several days before the fight.

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With a request from LIFE
magazine to do a cover

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of Cassius as if he had beaten Liston,

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who was at that point a
seven to one favorite.

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Life took no chances.

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They wanted a cover, plated and ready

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to print on Saturday night,

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to be distributed to newsstands

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by Monday in such an eventuality.

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So after one of his daily workouts,

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and when he was perspiring freely,

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I got him alone and asked him to show me

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various facial expressions
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if an upset victory was his.

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The result was on the
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a little more than 24
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At the weigh in,

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Clay with so obstreperous
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for taunting and bad contact.

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The camera I was using for
the fight, was rather unique.

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It was called a Hulcher,

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and it was developed for
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during the war,

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so as to be able to make

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ground destruction
pictures after a bombing.

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And it had the unique capacity

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of shooting at 50 frames per
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which was carried on hundred foot rolls.

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And at that point we did
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available to us in any other form.

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So, at the end of the sixth round,

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Liston had dislocated his
shoulder, came out of the socket.

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The fight is over,
absolute bedlam prevails.

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Clay is screaming,

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"I am the greatest, I am the greatest!"

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Over and over again.

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I climb up on the ring
ropes and straddle myself

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to get a position of view
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So, after the fight I went
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to the Hampton House Motel in Brownsville,

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since that was the only place he was...

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He was not allowed to
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due to the Jim Crow segregation laws.

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I was the only member
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and certainly the only
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Cassius had donned a tuxedo,

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and Malcolm X, the Muslim leader,

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he was behind the counter with a camera

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to take Ali's picture.

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I climbed up on top of the counter

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to record this historic moment.

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Clay then proceeds to entertain the crowd

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with his keen sense of humor,

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and he's taken rhyming to a new level.

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Clay and Malcolm pose together.

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and in favor of his new religion

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and Malcolm was ostracized,

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assassinated by the Muslim leader.

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to part friendship with Malcolm.

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of that particular picture,

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which he carried with him
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So, they are going to fight again.

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I traveled to Sonny Liston's
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and he comes down the stairs and I thought

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he was the scariest man in the world.

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But after we got to talking
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And by the time I took his portrait

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he looked much more friendly, I thought.

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The rematch is scheduled
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I bring my family with
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and we're staying at Jack Parr's hotel.

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Ali's brother Ramon,

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offers to sterilize the baby milk bottles

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for our youngest son who was then

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no more than about six months old.

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Corey, not quite three

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climbs up on Ali's lap
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- And Muhammad Ali has
come to Houston, Texas

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to the George R. Brown convention center

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for an autograph show.

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So, we head backstage and
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he's got Parkinson's, he's
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And when I come through the curtains

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with the photograph, he lightens up.

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He springs up from his chair,

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comes on over to me, takes
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We head back behind the curtains

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to the table where he's
gonna sign that for me.

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he puts the photograph down
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and looks at the photograph, looks at me,

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and points down and points at me and says,

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"You still ugly."

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And I said to him,

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Well, you know, that's gonna cost you now,

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and I'm gonna put my daughter on your lap

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and we're gonna try to
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It didn't come out so well,
not like that other photograph.

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Here she looks a little bit like

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a scared little girl, on
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- Ali invites me into his bedroom

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to demonstrate how he's
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Not just physically, but mentally as well.

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He stares at a blowup of
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and jokes, "Man, you
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Sometime before the fight
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I make this portrait of Ali.

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I've come to realize

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that all that braggadocio was just

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beating a drum for the box office.

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Incidentally, Ali told me his inspiration.

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It was none other than gorgeous George

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with his wavy blonde hair

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and his ostentatious manner in the ring.

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So, here we are into the fight itself

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and Liston falls down before
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and everybody screams fraud.

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He took a dive,

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he threw the fight.

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Nobody saw the punch,
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You can clearly see my picture,

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which was published in
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connecting with a hard
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Shooting ahead to 1969,

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LIFE magazine asks him to
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"The Great White Hope" which is about

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a black heavyweight champion
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And Ali was very interested in this show

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at the conclusion of which he says to me,

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"You know, except for the sex part,

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that could very well be me."

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So, we are walking back to
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and Ali had an affinity for magic.

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We walk into a magic store
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There's no such thing as cell phones.

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So he buys a phone with a coil cord,

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and a receiver, and a bell,

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and puts it on his person.

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And we go back to the Taft
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and we get in the elevator
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Elevator operator closing gate and Ali,

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the elevator starts up
and Ali rings the phone

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and pulls the receiver out of his pocket,

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and pretends to have a quick,
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When we get off at the
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the gate closes, the
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We fell on the floor laughing,

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'cause we both knew
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in the elevator who of course
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So I took him over to the LIFE studio

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which was a few blocks away,

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and projected some pictures of the show

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onto the screen and photographed Ali

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in front of these things so
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At the conclusion of our shoot,

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the assistant took a picture of Ali and I

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facing off against each other.

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In 1960, Cassius Clay came to Miami

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determined to be the heavyweight
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In end, he became something
even more, a legend!

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Everybody remembers who was alive

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at the time back in the fifties,

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when Eisenhower picked Nixon to be

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his candidate for Vice President.

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And then there were some
expose' in the press

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about Nixon's financial doings.

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And so he was under pressure,

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and Nixon decided to take to television

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which was a relatively new medium.

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And he gave a speech
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And he said, basically
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"My wife, Pat has a plain cloth coat."

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Indicating they didn't have
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But he said,

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a gentleman from Texas
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and my daughter fell in love with it,

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and she named it Checkers and
we're not giving him back.

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Well, the public was impressed.

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Eisenhower applauded the speech and said,

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"You're gonna stay on the ticket."

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And that's how Checkers became
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It's now called the Checkers Speech.

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And now I wanna jump ahead
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Richard Nixon had with Hedda Hopper.

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Who was Hedda Hopper?

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she was the most famous
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She was basically somebody
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with all the movie stars and celebrities,

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and her newspaper column
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known for her very funny,
crazy hats that she wore.

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She was quite a celebrity in her own day.

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And then Nixon,

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who was part of that
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and went ahead and published a book.

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I was there doing a story on Hedda Hopper

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and Nixon came in and posed
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Getting assigned to do a
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for any photographer, especially
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When my boss, Roy Rowan
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Bob, you're gonna get a crack at a cover.

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We want you to shoot a
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because he's gonna be running president.

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And I got so excited.

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And a couple of days later,

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Roy called me into his office and said,

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"Bob, we're having a little problem.

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Nixon does not wanna pose now.

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He feels it wouldn't be propitious

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throwing his hat in the ring this early."

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So Roy Rowan said,

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well, we're not gonna
take no for an answer.

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We're going to ask our boss, Henry Luce,

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who was a big Republican donor
to intercede in our behalf.

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We want Nixon on the cover.

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And I felt pretty good about that.

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But then days later I found
out that Nixon was adamant.

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He was not going to do this.

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So I said to Roy Rowan, my boss, I said,

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"Roy do you mind if I try on my own?"

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And he laughed at me
after what had happened,

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but I had an ace up my sleeve.

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I was with Hedda Hopper months
ago doing a story on her,

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and she told me about her
relationship with Dick Nixon.

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And it was as follows.

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When Eisenhower and
Nixon in 52 and in 1956

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were touring the Midwest by
train is how they used to do it.

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They were not drawing the crowds.

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The farmers were not that interested,

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and they were worried stiff.

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So, Nixon who knew Hedda Hopper called her

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and said, "Hedda you got
to come out and help us."

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And she flew out and the farmer's
wives heard she was coming

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and she got on the train
and the crowds came to see

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Eisenhower and Nixon and Hedda
Hopper with her kookie hats,

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and truth be told,

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Hedda Hopper was responsible for not only

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winning the Midwest for
Eisenhower, but the presidency.

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So I knew that story.

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And I decided to call Hedda Hopper.

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She used to call me, "Dear boy."

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Cause she was about 30
years older than I was.

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And she understood what
I needed and she said,

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"Dear boy, what's your phone number?"

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And I gave her the phone number.

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She said, "Stay by your
phone a few minutes."

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In few minutes the phone rings,

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and the lady says to me,

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"My name is Rosemary Woods.

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I don't know who you are,

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but where do you want him, and when?"

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Well, okay, who is Rosemary Woods?

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She was Nixon's personal secretary.

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So at any rate,

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now I have Nixon over at the LIFE studio

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with a camera that was a
four by five Gowlandflex

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like a giant twin lens reflex.

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And we do some testing and
you see a picture behind me

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when I stood in for Nixon to
see that the lights were right

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and everything looked good
and Nixon comes along,

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and we made one more
test and it looked good.

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So we proceeded to photograph
him in that fashion.

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At the conclusion of which he
wasn't in a hurry to run out.

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And the assistant took a picture of myself

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with Nixon at the studio and he leaves

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and I've run over to the LIFE lab,

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and it took about three
hours to process the film.

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And when it comes out of
the tank, it's a disaster.

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About five of the six lights that we had,

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didn't go off.

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And of course,

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well I was shooting I couldn't know that

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because it was just a
blinding flash of light,

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but I had no cover.

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After all the trouble I went
through, I had no cover.

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So I took the train
home and I told my wife,

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you know, I think my career is over.

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I really blew a big one.

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And she said, well, I don't understand.

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Why don't you just call
up and get him back?

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I said, you don't understand.
It doesn't go that way.

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I had my chance, I blew it.

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Well, she was after me
throughout the rest of the night.

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So by the time the next
morning came along,

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I decided I'd make the phone
call and see what happens.

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So I called this Rosemary
Woods again and she says,

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"Oh, I was just gonna call you."

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I said really, what for?

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She said well,

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I wonder if we could get
some prints of what you did.

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I said, Oh yeah, I'll be happy to do that.

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But quite frankly, Rosemary,

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there was a problem with the picture.

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She said, "What problem?"

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I said, well your boss
showed up in a black suit

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and a solid black tie,

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and it looked very funereal.

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And she says, "Oh my God, what can we do?"

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I said, I'll go buy some ties
to freshen up the picture

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If you get him back.

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She said, "I'd be happy to do that.

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Let's do it."

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So what you see on the screen now

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is the final picture, corrected picture

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of Nixon with all lights working.

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(calm music)

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Airplane controllers were
unhappy with the amount of pay

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they received for the
hard work they were doing,

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but they were prohibited
by law from striking.

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So, they did the next best thing.

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They decided really enforce the laws

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and airports all over the
country were causing huge delays,

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as these controllers were exercising

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their prerogatives under the law.

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And that created pileups of airplanes

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waiting on the tarmac
20, 30 minutes at a time.

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And the public was very
well aware of the condition

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and it put pressure on the government

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to do something about it.

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But in the meantime,

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LIFE asked me to do some kind
of coverage of this situation,

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and I went out there and I watched it.

362
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,760
Now, even though the pilots were

363
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caused to wait 20 minutes, 30 minutes,

364
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they were still spread apart

365
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on this giant situation on the runways,

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and it didn't make a very good picture.

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So that first evening,

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I asked the chief of the controller,

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if he would come to dinner with me.

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And we dined and I explained
what I needed for a picture,

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which was 20 or 30 planes
in a row like soldiers.

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And I guess after a few beers, he thought,

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why not, he'll do it.

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And so the next day I was in a helicopter

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and my new friend arranged
that the planes be lined up

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like soldiers on one runway.

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And I made the picture
that became the LIFE cover.

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00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:34,690
So, it wasn't a falsehood

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because that was a real situation,

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00:22:39,190 --> 00:22:42,710
but I had to make it visual and vertical

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so that we could use it.

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00:22:46,770 --> 00:22:49,470
For the Winter Olympics of that year,

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I was assigned to do the U.S. Bobsled team

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up at Lake Placid, New
York, Mt. Van Hoevenberg,

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where they had a bobsled track

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going down the side of the mountain.

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But I knew I wanted something different.

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And so we got a bobsled
over to a garage shop

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and we welded a mount for a camera

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on the front cowl of the bobsled,

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and ran a wire.

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Bobsled was a four seater

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and ran a wire in the bobsled
to see position three,

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where I was going to be firing the camera

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as we rode down at
approximately 103 miles an hour.

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What I did not know,

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was what shutter speed to select.

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I didn't wanna freeze
the action completely.

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It'd make it look still and frozen.

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I wanted enough sense of motion

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to appreciate 103 miles an hour,

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but I also wanted detail in Bob Said,

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who was the captain of the U.S. team

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and in the steering
position to be recognizable.

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So, it required three separate runs

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at three different shutter speeds.

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And I had the film processed

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00:24:14,180 --> 00:24:18,500
and one of the runs was just perfect.

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00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:23,500
And that's how I got that
cover of the U.S. Bobsled team.

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00:24:24,620 --> 00:24:25,453
But I'll tell you,

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it was the scariest thing
I think I have ever done

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in terms of riding that bobsled

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bouncing all over the
ice at that great speed.

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It was quite an experience
I'll never forget.

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00:24:42,470 --> 00:24:44,620
Next I wanna talk about this picture

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in black and white of
Little League hockey.

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00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:54,080
When it first started, I was
asked to do a story on it.

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00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,120
And I went out to New Jersey somewhere,

419
00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,560
and I stayed with the hockey league there

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and photograph kids playing hockey.

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00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,990
And it was just great,

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00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:07,945
except that none of my
pictures, action pictures

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of the actual competition really said

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00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,980
what I knew was happening,

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00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:19,270
and that was they're enjoying
the heck out of hockey.

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So I had an idea how to make
this work in a photograph.

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I lined up two teams on the
opposite end of the arena.

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And I took a $5 bill and
I put a puck over it,

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00:25:34,290 --> 00:25:37,780
and I got up on a little three foot ladder

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00:25:37,780 --> 00:25:40,730
and I blew a whistle
and they came charging

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to see who could get that $5 bill.

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And what resulted

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was a pile up of kids
laughing and having a ball.

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And that was the opening
double page spread

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in LIFE magazine.

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It said, "Kids are having a great time

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at ice hockey Little League."

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00:26:01,410 --> 00:26:03,800
In 1965,

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there was a blackout of
the entire Eastern seaboard

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from Ottawa to Florida.

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00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:13,200
And it went on for many, many hours.

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00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,970
And I didn't have an
assignment from anybody

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00:26:16,970 --> 00:26:19,010
'cause phones were out,

444
00:26:19,010 --> 00:26:21,710
but I decided it seemed significant enough

445
00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:24,370
after several hours that
I better get somewhere

446
00:26:24,370 --> 00:26:27,290
and record this as best I could.

447
00:26:27,290 --> 00:26:30,530
So I drove into New York,

448
00:26:30,530 --> 00:26:32,840
ended up somewhere in
the Brooklyn Navy yard,

449
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,280
looking at lower Manhattan

450
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as nobody had ever seen it before.

451
00:26:39,830 --> 00:26:44,150
It was totally dark except
by the light of a full moon,

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00:26:44,150 --> 00:26:45,380
which was over my shoulder.

453
00:26:45,380 --> 00:26:48,240
So I set my camera up on a tripod

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and I made some time exposures

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00:26:50,950 --> 00:26:55,223
of lower Manhattan in that moonlight.

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And then I got an idea.

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It seemed to me that we
were all existing basically

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by the light of a full moon that night.

459
00:27:04,610 --> 00:27:09,250
And that, that should be
part of my picture and story.

460
00:27:09,250 --> 00:27:13,880
So taking a clue from a
great colleague of mine,

461
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,470
the famous black
photographer, Gordon Parks,

462
00:27:17,470 --> 00:27:20,470
who had done multiple exposures

463
00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:23,923
of which I thought were very significant.

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00:27:24,870 --> 00:27:29,870
So, what I did was rewound
my film, I exposed film,

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00:27:30,820 --> 00:27:35,820
turned the camera 180 degrees,
put on a telephoto lens,

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and exposed pictures of the full moon

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00:27:40,170 --> 00:27:42,740
in the upper right hand quadrant

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00:27:42,740 --> 00:27:47,563
where I knew the skyline
had nothing else exposed.

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00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,590
And shot another whole roll doing that.

470
00:27:52,590 --> 00:27:57,590
And then the big question
at LIFE the next day

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00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,713
was well,

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00:27:59,713 --> 00:28:02,460
I told them, I explained exactly
how that picture was made.

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00:28:02,460 --> 00:28:04,800
And my justification for doing that

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00:28:05,670 --> 00:28:07,920
in that fashion was that,

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00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,040
in fact it was not so bad

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00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,410
because had I been on the New Jersey side

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00:28:14,410 --> 00:28:15,940
looking at the lower Manhattan,

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00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:17,480
I would have seen that moon.

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00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,030
So I justified what I did on that basis.

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00:28:21,030 --> 00:28:22,410
There was a huge argument,

481
00:28:22,410 --> 00:28:27,410
went on for hours about in
the context of a news picture,

482
00:28:28,110 --> 00:28:29,960
knowing what I had done

483
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,130
they could go with that
in good conscience.

484
00:28:32,130 --> 00:28:35,087
And they decided to do exactly that.

485
00:28:35,087 --> 00:28:40,087
And it ran as a big
double page opening spread

486
00:28:40,410 --> 00:28:42,830
for the story of that great blackout.

487
00:28:42,830 --> 00:28:44,960
And what was interesting to me

488
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,320
considering the ethics involved

489
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,350
was that all the major magazines

490
00:28:50,350 --> 00:28:52,140
in the world picked up on it.

491
00:28:52,140 --> 00:28:54,750
There was Der Stern, there were Paris Match.

492
00:28:54,750 --> 00:28:56,990
They all grabbed it and ran with it,

493
00:28:56,990 --> 00:28:58,380
and felt it was okay,

494
00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:03,333
even in terms of how I had made it.

495
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,517
(calm music)

496
00:29:11,020 --> 00:29:14,090
What you're looking at on the screen

497
00:29:14,090 --> 00:29:18,510
is a picture of myself with Nikon's first

498
00:29:18,510 --> 00:29:23,510
and only underwater or waterproof
camera called a Nikonos.

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00:29:25,690 --> 00:29:27,300
And on top of my head,

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00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:31,420
you just see a giant studio
strobe attached to a pipe

501
00:29:31,420 --> 00:29:36,420
with some electric cords going
to the surface of the pool.

502
00:29:39,540 --> 00:29:43,210
I am doing a story on the 1964,

503
00:29:43,210 --> 00:29:47,570
U.S. Women's Olympic Swim Team.

504
00:29:47,570 --> 00:29:50,750
And we're in California during practice,

505
00:29:50,750 --> 00:29:55,750
and I decided that the best
way to see these ladies

506
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,733
and their perfection is
to look at it underwater.

507
00:30:01,580 --> 00:30:06,330
And what is now coming on the screen

508
00:30:06,330 --> 00:30:10,680
is a picture of a 16 year old Kathy Ellis,

509
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,680
who is swimming the
butterfly as observed by me

510
00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:18,210
from under the water.

511
00:30:18,210 --> 00:30:20,820
She went on to win three gold medals,

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00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:23,790
I believe and a few others.

513
00:30:23,790 --> 00:30:24,710
Quite a superstar!

514
00:30:24,710 --> 00:30:26,650
That particular picture was

515
00:30:26,650 --> 00:30:28,913
one of the best I have ever made.

516
00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:34,610
And I continued, did a big picture story

517
00:30:34,610 --> 00:30:36,370
on the Women's Olympic team.

518
00:30:36,370 --> 00:30:39,370
It ran for eight or 10 pages in LIFE,

519
00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:44,040
and on the cover it featured another

520
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,093
Olympic swimming champion
named Donna de Varona.

521
00:30:49,530 --> 00:30:51,890
And I thought to myself,

522
00:30:51,890 --> 00:30:53,750
how can I flush out this story

523
00:30:53,750 --> 00:30:56,780
apart from all the practices going on?

524
00:30:56,780 --> 00:30:58,010
And I asked Donna,

525
00:30:58,010 --> 00:31:00,770
what else she does that
might be of some interest?

526
00:31:00,770 --> 00:31:03,330
And she said, well, she's
a pretty good surfer.

527
00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:05,200
I said, no kidding.

528
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,370
Let's go to the beach and
catch you doing some surfing.

529
00:31:08,370 --> 00:31:13,370
It'll be a great contrast to
all this practice in the pool.

530
00:31:13,370 --> 00:31:14,920
So she was very accommodating.

531
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,920
She gets out there in the
surf and after a ride or two,

532
00:31:20,110 --> 00:31:22,010
she has a terrible accident.

533
00:31:22,010 --> 00:31:25,040
She flies off the surfboard
and injures herself.

534
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:30,000
She comes crawling out of
the ocean and I'm thinking,

535
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,720
Oh my gosh,

536
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,880
I've wrecked her career right before

537
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,150
the summer Olympics in Tokyo.

538
00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:39,170
Well, I was very nervous about that,

539
00:31:39,170 --> 00:31:42,660
but fortunately Donna de Varona

540
00:31:43,550 --> 00:31:46,280
recovered sufficiently to make the team.

541
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,010
And then by the time they got to Tokyo,

542
00:31:48,010 --> 00:31:50,683
she was in top form and did very well.

543
00:31:52,058 --> 00:31:54,641
(upbeat music)

544
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,250
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,

545
00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:07,208
the Beatles.

546
00:32:07,208 --> 00:32:08,239
Bring them on now.

547
00:32:08,239 --> 00:32:09,846
(crowd cheering)

548
00:32:09,846 --> 00:32:12,596
(Beatle's music)

549
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,850
- By the time the Beatles
first arrived in America,

550
00:32:22,850 --> 00:32:25,230
they were already well known.

551
00:32:25,230 --> 00:32:27,070
Their song, "She Loves You",

552
00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:30,033
was a big hit among teenagers.

553
00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:33,360
They appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show,

554
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,410
in February of 1964.

555
00:32:37,410 --> 00:32:38,290
The second night of

556
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:41,010
the democratic presidential debate

557
00:32:41,010 --> 00:32:44,930
in Miami this past June 2019,

558
00:32:44,930 --> 00:32:48,150
drew 18 million viewers,

559
00:32:48,150 --> 00:32:50,820
but 73 million people were watching

560
00:32:50,820 --> 00:32:53,263
the Beatles back in 1964.

561
00:32:56,010 --> 00:32:57,380
On February 13th,

562
00:32:57,380 --> 00:33:00,250
they flew down to Miami
for another appearance

563
00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:03,403
on Sullivan at the Deauville hotel.

564
00:33:04,250 --> 00:33:07,660
A radio show host announced in advance

565
00:33:07,660 --> 00:33:11,030
their arrival time at the airport.

566
00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:14,612
7,000 screaming fans
were there to greet them.

567
00:33:14,612 --> 00:33:17,445
(crowd screaming)

568
00:33:26,290 --> 00:33:30,773
They broke 23 windows
and a plate glass door.

569
00:33:31,696 --> 00:33:34,529
(crowd screaming)

570
00:33:39,090 --> 00:33:42,490
Reporter, Gail Cameron
and I covering for LIFE

571
00:33:42,490 --> 00:33:45,870
got driven in limos to the hotel,

572
00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:48,963
adoring crowds waving as we passed.

573
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,710
Arriving at the hotel,

574
00:33:51,710 --> 00:33:56,060
we're invaded by a mob of teenagers.

575
00:33:56,060 --> 00:33:59,063
At least one girl passes out.

576
00:34:00,550 --> 00:34:02,300
LIFE's original idea,

577
00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:03,920
was to get the Beatles together

578
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,870
for a photo session in a pool.

579
00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:10,060
It was obviously impossible to do this

580
00:34:10,060 --> 00:34:12,283
at the Deauville facility.

581
00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:18,140
Gail, arranges access at a
private residence on Miami beach,

582
00:34:18,140 --> 00:34:21,993
but the Beatles say no,
claiming they're tired.

583
00:34:22,890 --> 00:34:27,083
Paul McCartney finally
agrees to the LIFE request.

584
00:34:28,330 --> 00:34:30,860
Now getting the Beatles out of the hotel

585
00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:33,730
with thousands of screaming fans

586
00:34:33,730 --> 00:34:35,740
required strategic planning

587
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:39,630
usually reserved for military landings.

588
00:34:39,630 --> 00:34:42,890
With five cops to
protect the four Beatles,

589
00:34:42,890 --> 00:34:46,053
we finally snuck them out a back way.

590
00:34:47,630 --> 00:34:50,560
After changing into bathing suits,

591
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:55,560
four pale skinny guys entered the pool.

592
00:34:55,730 --> 00:34:58,680
They seemed uncertain how to react.

593
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,090
They wanted to be told what to do.

594
00:35:02,090 --> 00:35:04,700
I told them just to have fun.

595
00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,470
Ringo started a splash fight.

596
00:35:07,470 --> 00:35:11,250
John did a few cannonballs
off the diving board.

597
00:35:11,250 --> 00:35:13,570
McCartney takes a plunge underwater,

598
00:35:13,570 --> 00:35:16,740
he comes up screaming, "It's cold!"

599
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:18,333
Lenin tries it too.

600
00:35:19,590 --> 00:35:20,820
Finally exhausted,

601
00:35:20,820 --> 00:35:24,750
they exit the pool and
wrap themselves in towels.

602
00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:26,723
It's time for a nap and some rest.

603
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:29,940
My best known photograph

604
00:35:29,940 --> 00:35:33,083
is of the four lads in lounge chairs.

605
00:35:34,220 --> 00:35:38,270
The Beatles told me they
had never been anywhere

606
00:35:38,270 --> 00:35:40,530
where there were palm trees.

607
00:35:40,530 --> 00:35:44,950
They were so accustomed to
the miserable British winters.

608
00:35:44,950 --> 00:35:47,443
Florida was a paradise.

609
00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:50,890
McCartney falls asleep.

610
00:35:50,890 --> 00:35:53,680
Harrison grabs a French fry.

611
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,060
Lennon grabs the smoke.

612
00:35:56,060 --> 00:36:00,050
McCartney wakes and takes
some pictures with his Pentax.

613
00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:02,483
Harrison grabs another snack.

614
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,960
The next day, we whisked them
away to North Miami beach,

615
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,893
where we hoped they
wouldn't be recognized.

616
00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:12,623
Wrong.

617
00:36:13,540 --> 00:36:15,110
After a brief run,

618
00:36:15,110 --> 00:36:18,730
the lads jumped into the
ocean and splashed away.

619
00:36:18,730 --> 00:36:21,973
A few girls spotted them and
joined them in the water.

620
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,780
One of them, a girl named Ruth Blythe

621
00:36:25,780 --> 00:36:29,120
impulsively gave McCartney a kiss.

622
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,460
Ringo and the others were
also hugged and kissed

623
00:36:32,460 --> 00:36:36,223
until police got them
safely away to our vehicles.

624
00:36:37,330 --> 00:36:39,960
The next day was the rehearsal,

625
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,643
and the lads renewed their
acquaintance with Ed Sullivan.

626
00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,020
For the actual performance,

627
00:36:47,020 --> 00:36:52,020
CBS, gave out 3,500 tickets
for the 600 available seats,

628
00:36:54,790 --> 00:36:58,570
and there was a near riot as a result.

629
00:36:58,570 --> 00:37:01,233
The fans were delirious with excitement.

630
00:37:02,140 --> 00:37:07,140
Surprisingly enough,
LIFE never ran the story.

631
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,410
In 2005 Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon

632
00:37:15,410 --> 00:37:18,850
invited me to contribute
a chapter of my memories

633
00:37:18,850 --> 00:37:23,850
along with Joan Baez, Bono
Ray Charles, Mick Jagger,

634
00:37:24,530 --> 00:37:29,530
Elton John, Norman Mailer,
Carlos Santana and Carly Simon.

635
00:37:30,010 --> 00:37:33,773
I was very honored to be
included with such august company.

636
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,590
The first time some of my Beatle
photographs were published

637
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:44,590
was in August of 2015 in Closer
Magazine, 51 years later.

638
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,593
CBS saw it and came over for an interview.

639
00:37:53,010 --> 00:37:55,650
I showed them a picture of
McCartney and Ruth Blythe

640
00:37:55,650 --> 00:37:58,230
kissing on Miami beach.

641
00:37:58,230 --> 00:38:01,640
The show appeared nationally
and the Blythe's family

642
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:06,320
now living on the West coast,
watched it on their TV.

643
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,530
They were astonished,

644
00:38:07,530 --> 00:38:12,530
because when their daughter
Ruth came home that day in 1964

645
00:38:12,610 --> 00:38:15,710
claiming she had met and kissed a Beatle,

646
00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:17,013
they didn't believe her.

647
00:38:18,010 --> 00:38:21,610
Now, more than 50 years had passed,

648
00:38:21,610 --> 00:38:24,933
and they realized she
was telling the truth.

649
00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:31,380
Sadly, Ruth Blythe had
passed away some years before

650
00:38:31,630 --> 00:38:35,203
and never got the
vindication she deserved.

651
00:38:36,530 --> 00:38:37,940
My prints of that occasion

652
00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:40,260
now hang proudly in their home.

653
00:38:40,260 --> 00:38:42,500
And more recently also in the rooms

654
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:47,010
of the elegant five-star
Post Oak Hotel in Houston,

655
00:38:47,010 --> 00:38:49,003
courtesy of Tilman Fertitta.

656
00:38:51,111 --> 00:38:53,528
(calm music)

657
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,437
The title of the NBC show in 1961 was

658
00:38:59,437 --> 00:39:02,520
"Car 54, Where are you?"

659
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,870
It was story about two policemen

660
00:39:04,870 --> 00:39:07,050
out of a fictitious precinct

661
00:39:07,050 --> 00:39:09,550
in the Bronx, the 53rd precinct,

662
00:39:09,550 --> 00:39:14,550
and their misadventures
on various assignments.

663
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,660
Well, it was popular show.

664
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:21,950
They did about 60, 30 shows per year.

665
00:39:21,950 --> 00:39:25,830
They did a total of 60 shows
and it was very well received.

666
00:39:25,830 --> 00:39:30,470
And LIFE asked me to cover the shooting

667
00:39:33,057 --> 00:39:35,990
of the program, and I did.

668
00:39:35,990 --> 00:39:39,380
And on a particular day I was out there,

669
00:39:39,380 --> 00:39:42,460
we were in the Bronx and I don't remember

670
00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:44,380
what the script was calling for,

671
00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:49,380
but we were suddenly
faced with a rainstorm,

672
00:39:50,550 --> 00:39:52,130
a deluge of water,

673
00:39:52,130 --> 00:39:55,210
and everybody broke
and ran from the street

674
00:39:55,210 --> 00:39:56,973
where they were doing pictures.

675
00:39:58,110 --> 00:40:01,080
And I ended up in a candy store

676
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,163
with the two principal
cops just by accident.

677
00:40:05,150 --> 00:40:08,180
Where I was hoping for
a break in the weather

678
00:40:08,180 --> 00:40:12,510
and it wasn't coming and
we're there 20, 30 minutes.

679
00:40:12,510 --> 00:40:16,050
And I noticed outside the candy store

680
00:40:16,050 --> 00:40:19,853
was a garbage can with
a broken umbrella in it.

681
00:40:20,930 --> 00:40:22,800
So I got the idea and I asked

682
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,460
the two principal actors
in their uniforms,

683
00:40:26,460 --> 00:40:29,840
if they would please honor me and go out

684
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,170
in the middle of the
intersection heavy traffic

685
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:37,230
with this broken umbrella
and huddle underneath it.

686
00:40:37,230 --> 00:40:39,753
And they were happy to do that.

687
00:40:39,753 --> 00:40:44,753
And indeed, that was the
picture that opened the story

688
00:40:44,870 --> 00:40:47,671
even though it had nothing
to do with any other episode.

689
00:40:47,671 --> 00:40:51,000
It was very funny to see these two guys

690
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,703
huddle out there in traffic.

691
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:56,317
(calm music)

692
00:41:02,428 --> 00:41:05,095
(camera clicks)

693
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,000
- And so my fellow Americans

694
00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:21,920
ask not what your country can do for you,

695
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,579
ask what you can do for your country.

696
00:41:24,579 --> 00:41:28,120
(crowd cheering)

697
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,350
- LIFE first assigned me to cover

698
00:41:30,350 --> 00:41:34,763
a presidential campaign
of John Kennedy in 1960.

699
00:41:35,650 --> 00:41:39,090
My first assignment was covering
his mother, Rose Kennedy,

700
00:41:39,090 --> 00:41:42,030
who was doing campaigning for him.

701
00:41:42,030 --> 00:41:47,030
She had told me that Jack was
one of nine children she had.

702
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,300
At three years old she related,

703
00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:54,770
Jack was very sick,
whooping cough, measles,

704
00:41:54,770 --> 00:41:57,940
chicken pox, Scarlet fever,

705
00:41:57,940 --> 00:42:01,730
and a family joke about great risk.

706
00:42:01,730 --> 00:42:03,940
A mosquito took in biting him

707
00:42:03,940 --> 00:42:06,210
who with some of his blood the mosquito,

708
00:42:06,210 --> 00:42:08,113
was almost sure to die.

709
00:42:09,990 --> 00:42:13,690
Jack was a student at a
boys school in Connecticut

710
00:42:13,690 --> 00:42:16,610
and had a daily subscription
to the New York Times

711
00:42:16,610 --> 00:42:18,993
like I do to this very day.

712
00:42:20,380 --> 00:42:22,690
When he won the election,

713
00:42:22,690 --> 00:42:27,150
I was assigned to cover him
at his home in Georgetown.

714
00:42:27,150 --> 00:42:30,100
The press were camped out in front ...

715
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:34,870
as potential cabinet appointees
pulled up in limousines,

716
00:42:34,870 --> 00:42:38,080
and walk the three steps to the door.

717
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,480
His daughter, Caroline,

718
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,043
occasionally peered out
the window to watch us.

719
00:42:46,570 --> 00:42:48,960
The president elect would take her

720
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,940
for brief walks down the street.

721
00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:54,110
On a Saturday morning, Pierre Salinger,

722
00:42:54,110 --> 00:42:59,000
the president's press secretary
told we assembled press

723
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,130
that there were no appointments that day,

724
00:43:01,130 --> 00:43:02,793
and we could go home.

725
00:43:03,950 --> 00:43:06,680
All the world's news
organization got permission

726
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,460
from their offices to do just that,

727
00:43:09,460 --> 00:43:14,460
except Jim Atherton, an AP
photographer and myself.

728
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,440
LIFE magazine went to press Saturday night

729
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,180
and they wouldn't take any chances

730
00:43:19,180 --> 00:43:21,703
that something newsworthy might happen.

731
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,700
So Jim and I stood outside on
that cold November afternoon

732
00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:29,300
until the president opened his windows,

733
00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:31,140
and invited us in to watch

734
00:43:31,140 --> 00:43:33,333
the Army Navy football game with him.

735
00:43:34,730 --> 00:43:37,190
We were ushered into the den

736
00:43:37,190 --> 00:43:40,150
where three TV trays were set up,

737
00:43:40,150 --> 00:43:42,993
and we were served steak and baked potato.

738
00:43:44,090 --> 00:43:49,000
After days outside in the
freezing Washington November,

739
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,180
the warm house environment
got the better of me

740
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:53,383
and I fell asleep.

741
00:43:55,090 --> 00:43:57,860
Atherton finally shook be awake.

742
00:43:57,860 --> 00:43:59,610
He said the game was over

743
00:43:59,610 --> 00:44:02,840
and that the president had left the room.

744
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,233
We returned to our position in the street.

745
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:07,513
After that,

746
00:44:07,513 --> 00:44:09,250
whenever the president would see me

747
00:44:09,250 --> 00:44:11,570
covering one of his events,

748
00:44:11,570 --> 00:44:14,710
he would point at me
with a big knowing smile

749
00:44:14,710 --> 00:44:17,860
and I would turn beet red in embarrassment

750
00:44:20,370 --> 00:44:23,010
In preparation for his presidency,

751
00:44:23,010 --> 00:44:28,010
John Kennedy had a personal
tailor custom make his clothes.

752
00:44:28,270 --> 00:44:29,820
His name was Sam Harris,

753
00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:31,660
and the procedure intrigued enough

754
00:44:31,660 --> 00:44:35,710
to seek out a custom tailor
for myself, named Morty Sills,

755
00:44:35,710 --> 00:44:39,560
who was well known
among celebrity circles.

756
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,590
Now, more than 57 years later,

757
00:44:42,590 --> 00:44:45,500
I'm still wearing the
clothes Morty made for me

758
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:48,023
in the sixties and seventies.

759
00:44:49,350 --> 00:44:52,410
I did not cover the inauguration ceremony,

760
00:44:52,410 --> 00:44:56,667
but will always remember
Kennedy's immortal challenge.

761
00:44:56,667 --> 00:45:00,100
"Ask not what your country can do for you,

762
00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:02,947
ask what you can do for your country."

763
00:45:04,830 --> 00:45:07,950
My first assignments covering
now, president Kennedy

764
00:45:07,950 --> 00:45:11,960
began when he addressed the
United Nations general assembly

765
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,330
in September of 1961.

766
00:45:15,330 --> 00:45:18,180
He began by paying homage
to the recent death

767
00:45:18,180 --> 00:45:22,610
of UN secretary general,
Dag Hammarskjold, 56,

768
00:45:22,610 --> 00:45:25,890
who died under somewhat
mysterious circumstances

769
00:45:25,890 --> 00:45:28,110
when his plane crashed while on route

770
00:45:28,110 --> 00:45:32,123
to ceasefire negotiations
during the Congo crisis.

771
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,660
Next came prime minister of India, Nehru,

772
00:45:37,660 --> 00:45:41,280
with his wife to visit in
November for three days

773
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,850
of talks, walks, parties.

774
00:45:43,850 --> 00:45:47,780
It was an occasion for me
to also attend a reception

775
00:45:47,780 --> 00:45:50,780
for Nehru at the Indian embassy that

776
00:45:50,780 --> 00:45:54,510
I was sufficiently attracted
to the families I met

777
00:45:54,510 --> 00:45:57,980
to create a desire to one
day visit their country,

778
00:45:57,980 --> 00:46:02,693
which I have in recent
years done three times now.

779
00:46:04,340 --> 00:46:06,770
In May, 1962,

780
00:46:06,770 --> 00:46:09,860
JFK spoke to the United auto workers

781
00:46:09,860 --> 00:46:11,853
in Atlantic city, New Jersey.

782
00:46:14,950 --> 00:46:17,153
JFK, and the press Corps,

783
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,690
charisma, what better way to describe it.

784
00:46:22,690 --> 00:46:27,690
Charm, aura, personality,
magnetism, drawing power,

785
00:46:29,350 --> 00:46:33,470
attractiveness, appeal, mystique, glamor,

786
00:46:33,470 --> 00:46:36,903
a type of leadership
seen as extraordinary.

787
00:46:39,150 --> 00:46:41,130
Kennedy visits Independent Hall

788
00:46:41,130 --> 00:46:45,020
in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1962.

789
00:46:45,020 --> 00:46:48,130
He talks about the
Declaration of Independence

790
00:46:48,130 --> 00:46:50,833
as being a revolutionary document.

791
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,800
The short life of Patrick
Kennedy born 20 years to the day

792
00:46:58,010 --> 00:47:02,313
JFK was rescued from an
island in the Pacific.

793
00:47:03,630 --> 00:47:08,630
We flew on air force one to
Otis Airbase, Massachusetts.

794
00:47:09,330 --> 00:47:11,350
Five and a half weeks,

795
00:47:11,350 --> 00:47:15,003
that is to say Patrick was five
and a half weeks premature.

796
00:47:15,950 --> 00:47:19,343
The baby had breathing
difficulties within minutes.

797
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,960
JFK saw his son in distress,
called for a chaplain,

798
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,140
and had him baptized.

799
00:47:27,140 --> 00:47:30,623
Patrick lived for only 39 hours.

800
00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:35,350
My photo of Kennedy in the
elevator of the hospital

801
00:47:35,350 --> 00:47:38,083
looks grave and appearing tired.

802
00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:42,370
Next time I was assigned
to cover the president

803
00:47:42,370 --> 00:47:45,610
it was because of the
Cuban missile crisis,

804
00:47:45,610 --> 00:47:48,393
in October of 1962.

805
00:47:49,340 --> 00:47:52,050
Our U2 spy plane discovers

806
00:47:52,050 --> 00:47:55,500
Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

807
00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:58,220
We traveled to Fort Stewart, Georgia

808
00:47:58,220 --> 00:48:01,453
to inspect our readiness to go to war.

809
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,620
Then on to the Naval
Air Station in Key West

810
00:48:07,620 --> 00:48:10,103
preparing fighter planes and bombers.

811
00:48:11,130 --> 00:48:15,020
Fortunately, Khrushchev backs off.

812
00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:20,020
In 2017, Caroline Kennedy
invites me to a celebration

813
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,030
at the Smithsonian in
Washington to commemorate

814
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:26,120
the hundredth anniversary
of her dad's birth

815
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,243
with rare photos of the
sixties, including mine.

816
00:48:30,260 --> 00:48:33,410
Among the speakers, Senator John McCain

817
00:48:33,410 --> 00:48:35,870
tells of being on an aircraft carrier

818
00:48:35,870 --> 00:48:39,060
as a Navy fighter pilot on his way to Cuba

819
00:48:39,060 --> 00:48:43,780
when Kennedy called off the
attack and how grateful he was.

820
00:48:43,780 --> 00:48:45,280
I shared with him that memory

821
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,053
as I was also assigned to that carrier.

822
00:48:48,930 --> 00:48:53,620
Russia is making big
strides in space exploration

823
00:48:53,620 --> 00:48:58,120
and John Kennedy commits to win the race.

824
00:48:58,120 --> 00:48:59,640
I accompany him on a tour

825
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:04,080
of the U.S. facilities
from Florida to Texas.

826
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,810
Along with Vice President
Johnson and several astronauts,

827
00:49:07,810 --> 00:49:12,050
we tour Huntsville, Alabama,
Cape Canaveral, Florida,

828
00:49:12,050 --> 00:49:15,440
Houston, Texas, and the main space center

829
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,050
at the McDonald plant in st. Louis to see

830
00:49:18,050 --> 00:49:20,813
the Mercury and Gemini space capsules.

831
00:49:23,010 --> 00:49:28,010
He meets with Wernher Von
Braun, Schirra, Wally Schirra,

832
00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:31,230
John Glenn among others.

833
00:49:31,230 --> 00:49:34,020
We also visit the army
missile command research

834
00:49:34,020 --> 00:49:35,363
and development center.

835
00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:40,810
Then we motorcade
through downtown Houston,

836
00:49:40,810 --> 00:49:43,833
Foley's department store
with flags around the right.

837
00:49:45,510 --> 00:49:48,980
We arrive at the Rice University Stadium.

838
00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:53,200
I am behind him to the
right, camera's at the ready.

839
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:58,140
University officials escort
the president to the podium.

840
00:49:58,140 --> 00:49:59,750
He begins what turns out to be

841
00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:03,530
one of the most historic
speeches of all times.

842
00:50:03,530 --> 00:50:06,537
A pledge to go to the moon quote,

843
00:50:06,537 --> 00:50:10,307
"Not because they're easy,
but because they're hard."

844
00:50:11,810 --> 00:50:15,210
My best picture of this
trip was never published.

845
00:50:15,210 --> 00:50:17,640
It was overlooked in the exigencies

846
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,340
of the weekly magazine business,

847
00:50:19,340 --> 00:50:23,470
and I recently discovered it
a few years ago of Kennedy

848
00:50:23,470 --> 00:50:28,470
coming out of a mockup prototype
of a Saturn five rocket

849
00:50:29,210 --> 00:50:33,623
that would one day launch
Apollo eight around the moon.

850
00:50:35,260 --> 00:50:37,680
Another day that will live infamy

851
00:50:38,700 --> 00:50:43,160
November 22nd, 1963,

852
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,183
the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

853
00:50:48,060 --> 00:50:51,550
I go to Washington and went
immediately to the White House,

854
00:50:51,550 --> 00:50:56,090
about 4:30 AM, Saturday, November 23rd.

855
00:50:56,090 --> 00:51:00,150
The bronze casket used to
transport the body from Dallas

856
00:51:00,150 --> 00:51:04,333
was damaged and a new
mahogany casket replaced it.

857
00:51:05,170 --> 00:51:07,670
It was kept closed because Jackie felt

858
00:51:07,670 --> 00:51:10,843
the gaping head wound
was unbearable to view.

859
00:51:12,550 --> 00:51:17,550
The next day, Kennedy is
brought to the Capitol rotunda.

860
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:21,363
Jackie asked the honor
guard to face inward.

861
00:51:23,850 --> 00:51:26,093
There's the playing of the Navy Hymn.

862
00:51:27,750 --> 00:51:32,293
I take a back stairway and walk
upstairs to a high balcony.

863
00:51:35,020 --> 00:51:39,170
Jackie and Caroline kneel in prayer.

864
00:51:39,170 --> 00:51:43,020
Then a most remarkable thing happens.

865
00:51:43,020 --> 00:51:46,770
I later name it, divine intervention.

866
00:51:46,770 --> 00:51:51,140
The sun bursts through
upper skylight windows,

867
00:51:51,140 --> 00:51:54,363
and sends a few beams of
light onto the coffin.

868
00:51:55,430 --> 00:51:57,400
I make the picture.

869
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,903
The beams disappear, divine intervention.

870
00:52:03,950 --> 00:52:07,330
After 18 hours of public viewing,

871
00:52:07,330 --> 00:52:12,210
250,000 people waiting
in freezing temperatures

872
00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:15,690
the casket is loaded onto the caisson.

873
00:52:15,690 --> 00:52:17,930
The riderless horse, named Black Jack

874
00:52:17,930 --> 00:52:21,120
escorts the body back to the White House.

875
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:24,973
I get this shot from the
outside balcony of the Capitol.

876
00:52:25,830 --> 00:52:29,460
Next, I rushed to the Mayflower Hotel

877
00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:32,090
where I'm able to view the procession,

878
00:52:32,090 --> 00:52:36,870
leaving the white house on
foot to St. Matthew's church.

879
00:52:36,870 --> 00:52:39,830
Then quickly to a vantage
point at the church

880
00:52:39,830 --> 00:52:43,230
where Cardinal Cushing kisses the casket.

881
00:52:43,230 --> 00:52:48,230
Jackie with children arrive
as do Bobby Kennedy, Teddy,

882
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:49,763
and the rest of the family.

883
00:52:51,510 --> 00:52:54,560
We were not credentialed
for the Arlington burial,

884
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,360
so the reporter and I take a chance

885
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:02,070
and hire a black limousine
like the dignitaries are using,

886
00:53:02,070 --> 00:53:04,153
and fall into line behind them.

887
00:53:05,470 --> 00:53:08,810
Fortunately, when we
arrive at the checkpoint

888
00:53:08,810 --> 00:53:11,260
it's the reporters old college professor,

889
00:53:11,260 --> 00:53:14,990
now a secret service
officer who recognizes her

890
00:53:14,990 --> 00:53:16,503
and waves us through.

891
00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:19,980
I am able to capture the military marching

892
00:53:19,980 --> 00:53:22,460
across the bridge, the honor guard,

893
00:53:22,460 --> 00:53:24,963
and the family's arrival at graveside.

894
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,580
Another bit of perspicacity
shrewdness on my part,

895
00:53:30,580 --> 00:53:34,000
I secure a vantage point among the VIP's

896
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:38,560
where no press is allowed to
make this historic photograph

897
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:43,240
of Charles de Gaulle and
Haile Selassie saluting

898
00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:48,240
while 220 foreign dignitaries,
19 heads of state,

899
00:53:49,140 --> 00:53:51,290
and members of royal families

900
00:53:51,290 --> 00:53:54,543
from 92 countries stand witness.

901
00:53:55,870 --> 00:53:57,740
Kennedy was buried at Arlington

902
00:53:57,740 --> 00:54:02,140
exactly two weeks to the
day he last visited there

903
00:54:02,140 --> 00:54:04,703
for Veteran's Day observations.

904
00:54:05,730 --> 00:54:09,350
I'm often asked about my
ability to divorce myself

905
00:54:09,350 --> 00:54:11,890
from any emotional reaction to the events

906
00:54:11,890 --> 00:54:16,053
that were happening to a
president who knew me by name.

907
00:54:17,580 --> 00:54:21,180
The overriding consideration
during those days

908
00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:24,890
was to make photographs
that will forever explain

909
00:54:24,890 --> 00:54:28,240
the momentousness of the occasion,

910
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:31,183
and the viewers like
you will never forget.

911
00:54:32,970 --> 00:54:34,740
50 years later,

912
00:54:34,740 --> 00:54:36,187
when LIFE published the book,

913
00:54:36,187 --> 00:54:38,480
"The Day Kennedy Died"

914
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,210
I had my emotional reaction.

915
00:54:41,210 --> 00:54:43,001
Tears came to my eyes.

916
00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:45,584
(somber music)

917
00:54:52,740 --> 00:54:55,010
You remember I talked about,

918
00:54:55,010 --> 00:55:00,010
how I felt the lighting at
the John Kennedy funeral

919
00:55:01,020 --> 00:55:03,190
was divine intervention.

920
00:55:03,190 --> 00:55:07,840
There was something else that
happened that day, in 1963.

921
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,930
I looked up to the ceiling,

922
00:55:09,930 --> 00:55:13,500
some 200 feet above me and thought

923
00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:18,500
if I ever get another opportunity
to shoot in this hall,

924
00:55:19,980 --> 00:55:22,690
I'm gonna figure out how to get a camera

925
00:55:22,690 --> 00:55:23,993
up there in the ceiling.

926
00:55:24,890 --> 00:55:27,513
Well, in 1969,

927
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:33,040
General Eisenhower dies and he is going

928
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:36,820
to have a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda.

929
00:55:36,820 --> 00:55:38,363
And I knew what I had to do.

930
00:55:39,250 --> 00:55:44,250
I picked up the phone and called
a secret service agent that

931
00:55:44,430 --> 00:55:48,370
I knew from the Kennedy
administration who was a friend,

932
00:55:48,370 --> 00:55:49,990
and told him what I had in mind.

933
00:55:49,990 --> 00:55:53,260
He said, "Don't tell anybody,

934
00:55:53,260 --> 00:55:56,340
but get down here with
your help right away,

935
00:55:56,340 --> 00:55:57,450
and I'll work with you."

936
00:55:57,450 --> 00:55:59,650
The reason for the secrecy was,

937
00:55:59,650 --> 00:56:03,850
because there were three
jurisdictions that had control

938
00:56:03,850 --> 00:56:07,810
over what happens for
the Eisenhower funerals.

939
00:56:07,810 --> 00:56:11,390
One was, of course the
Congress, it was their house.

940
00:56:11,390 --> 00:56:13,670
And the second was the
Department of the Army,

941
00:56:13,670 --> 00:56:16,310
and the third of course
was the secret service.

942
00:56:16,310 --> 00:56:18,710
Had the other two jurisdictions

943
00:56:20,060 --> 00:56:21,330
heard about my plan,

944
00:56:21,330 --> 00:56:22,700
they never would have allowed it

945
00:56:22,700 --> 00:56:27,390
because was a fear that my
camera might fall from above

946
00:56:27,390 --> 00:56:32,390
and injure some of the many
dignitaries who were below.

947
00:56:33,340 --> 00:56:37,170
So we worked in the wee
hours of the morning

948
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:42,930
around a huge balcony at the very top,

949
00:56:42,930 --> 00:56:47,930
and we ran steel cables all the way around

950
00:56:48,110 --> 00:56:52,640
to the opposite side and
then pulled the cables

951
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,030
over the top and had
them tied very tauntly,

952
00:56:57,030 --> 00:57:01,200
so that there were two lines going across

953
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,830
the center of the rotunda ceiling.

954
00:57:07,060 --> 00:57:12,060
And I put a plexiglass sheet attached

955
00:57:14,010 --> 00:57:18,320
to those two lines with
a hole in the middle,

956
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:23,320
and attached to camera
facing down on that sheet.

957
00:57:23,660 --> 00:57:28,640
And then a wire back to fire that camera.

958
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,950
And we pullied the camera
out over the center,

959
00:57:32,950 --> 00:57:35,200
and I had to run some tests,

960
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,770
because I could not know
what the camera was seeing

961
00:57:39,770 --> 00:57:42,450
that far away from where
I was on the balcony.

962
00:57:42,450 --> 00:57:46,590
And I was not sure of
what focal length lens,

963
00:57:46,590 --> 00:57:50,310
how wide a lens I could use there,

964
00:57:50,310 --> 00:57:53,860
which kept emphasis on the American flag

965
00:57:53,860 --> 00:57:56,223
covering Eisenhower's casket,

966
00:57:57,437 --> 00:58:02,233
at the same time wanting to
see the walls of the rotunda.

967
00:58:04,230 --> 00:58:08,070
So I tried back and forth
with three different lenses

968
00:58:08,070 --> 00:58:10,610
and we ran strobe lights,

969
00:58:10,610 --> 00:58:13,060
big powerful studio strobe lights

970
00:58:13,060 --> 00:58:17,150
around the entire arena and
synced that with the camera,

971
00:58:17,150 --> 00:58:21,870
because 200 feet of walls were not lit.

972
00:58:21,870 --> 00:58:25,780
The press and television
was lighting down below

973
00:58:25,780 --> 00:58:29,070
where the ceremonies were taking place,

974
00:58:29,070 --> 00:58:32,123
but I needed to light
the entire wall area.

975
00:58:33,050 --> 00:58:35,480
Okay, so we found a lab.

976
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,520
We opened the lab in
the middle of the night

977
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,740
and it took three hours
to process color film,

978
00:58:40,740 --> 00:58:43,320
but I got it back about 5:00 AM

979
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:47,790
and was able to pick the
lens that worked the best.

980
00:58:47,790 --> 00:58:51,240
And now, the only task left

981
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:56,240
was to string a zip cord wire
down 500 feet of stairwell

982
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:05,730
to a foot switch where
I was gonna be assigned

983
00:59:05,730 --> 00:59:08,950
with the rest of the
press down on the floor

984
00:59:08,950 --> 00:59:10,433
to cover the goings on.

985
00:59:11,380 --> 00:59:13,480
Well, the big fear I had

986
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,600
those Ascor strobe units at the time

987
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,380
when notorious for
going off by themselves.

988
00:59:19,380 --> 00:59:22,300
And had they done that on this occasion,

989
00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:27,300
I'm afraid that they
would have been called off

990
00:59:27,700 --> 00:59:30,180
and I would not have been
able to complete this picture,

991
00:59:30,180 --> 00:59:33,670
but fortunately the Ascor lights

992
00:59:33,670 --> 00:59:37,450
did not fire off by themselves.

993
00:59:37,450 --> 00:59:40,080
And during the ceremony,

994
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:45,080
I took two or three frames with
my foot and nobody noticed.

995
00:59:48,470 --> 00:59:52,060
And so, that's how that cover was made.

996
00:59:52,060 --> 00:59:53,160
By the way,

997
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:57,860
after it came out the
rest of the world claimed

998
00:59:57,860 --> 01:00:01,630
that it should be a pool photograph.

999
01:00:01,630 --> 01:00:04,073
And LIFE told them, "No way".

1000
01:00:05,370 --> 01:00:07,610
But interesting enough,

1001
01:00:07,610 --> 01:00:10,790
years later National Geographic

1002
01:00:10,790 --> 01:00:14,630
was doing a story on the Capitol,

1003
01:00:14,630 --> 01:00:16,940
and they wanted to do something similar

1004
01:00:16,940 --> 01:00:18,390
from the dome of the rotunda.

1005
01:00:19,402 --> 01:00:21,580
And they went before the Congress

1006
01:00:21,580 --> 01:00:26,230
and they showed him my
cover of LIFE as precedent,

1007
01:00:26,230 --> 01:00:27,923
and they got permission to do it.

1008
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,873
When General Douglas MacArthur passed,

1009
01:00:35,830 --> 01:00:37,830
the procession he was held

1010
01:00:37,830 --> 01:00:42,830
at the 51st Street Armory on Park Avenue,

1011
01:00:44,260 --> 01:00:48,040
and there was a procession of visitors

1012
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:50,460
who passed by the casket.

1013
01:00:50,460 --> 01:00:54,690
And I was curious about what level

1014
01:00:54,690 --> 01:00:56,960
since the casket was open,

1015
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,970
I could photograph this scene

1016
01:00:59,970 --> 01:01:02,760
where it would still not be offensive

1017
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,620
to some people in the general circulation.

1018
01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:08,520
I didn't want it to be
ghoulish in other words.

1019
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:12,670
But he did have a famous Patrician nose.

1020
01:01:12,670 --> 01:01:15,670
And I thought from the side,

1021
01:01:15,670 --> 01:01:20,430
I could show that and
that might be acceptable.

1022
01:01:20,430 --> 01:01:23,480
So I waited until about
2:00 AM in the morning

1023
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,820
when the crowds had dissipated,

1024
01:01:25,820 --> 01:01:30,820
and there were just two honor
guard soldiers and myself.

1025
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,830
And without asking,

1026
01:01:33,830 --> 01:01:37,920
I picked up one of the American flags

1027
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,610
and I moved it to a position that would be

1028
01:01:41,610 --> 01:01:44,770
directly behind the General's profile,

1029
01:01:44,770 --> 01:01:48,740
and to give it some other meaning

1030
01:01:48,740 --> 01:01:52,113
besides just his contenance.

1031
01:01:53,540 --> 01:01:58,540
And so I went home and got back
very early the next morning,

1032
01:02:00,500 --> 01:02:05,120
because the procession
was to leave the armory,

1033
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,570
go to Grand Central Station,
and then onto Washington.

1034
01:02:08,570 --> 01:02:13,120
And I was driving a 1960
Corvair at the time.

1035
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,510
And it had a unique trunk situation,

1036
01:02:15,510 --> 01:02:18,233
which was in the front
where engines normally go.

1037
01:02:19,090 --> 01:02:21,240
And I had my cameras in there,

1038
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,820
but I couldn't open the lock that morning.

1039
01:02:23,820 --> 01:02:26,320
And it was pouring down rain,

1040
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:31,320
and there were some policemen
and they tried to help me.

1041
01:02:31,930 --> 01:02:35,610
We took a crowbar and tried
to pry open the damn thing.

1042
01:02:35,610 --> 01:02:36,893
And that didn't work.

1043
01:02:37,870 --> 01:02:39,610
Some garbage men came by.

1044
01:02:39,610 --> 01:02:42,090
Now, it's eight o'clock sharp.

1045
01:02:42,090 --> 01:02:45,460
And I'm standing on
the steps of the armory

1046
01:02:45,460 --> 01:02:49,100
and here comes General MacArthur.

1047
01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:50,950
And all I could do,

1048
01:02:50,950 --> 01:02:54,870
I thought I'll salute at least in respect.

1049
01:02:54,870 --> 01:02:57,520
But it was now after eight o'clock,

1050
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:01,200
and I could reach a locksmith.

1051
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,390
So, I called a locksmith.

1052
01:03:03,390 --> 01:03:04,530
They came over and they were able

1053
01:03:04,530 --> 01:03:07,130
to open it one, two, three,
and I thought to myself,

1054
01:03:08,890 --> 01:03:11,030
what can I do at this point?

1055
01:03:11,030 --> 01:03:15,750
And it occurred to me to
drive to LaGuardia airport

1056
01:03:15,750 --> 01:03:17,850
and take a plane to Washington,

1057
01:03:17,850 --> 01:03:22,760
and I could catch up with the entourage.

1058
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,080
And that's exactly what I did.

1059
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,540
But at this point,

1060
01:03:26,540 --> 01:03:29,803
from the episode with the
car and the pouring rain,

1061
01:03:30,730 --> 01:03:32,940
I was drenched.

1062
01:03:32,940 --> 01:03:34,780
And when I got to Washington,

1063
01:03:34,780 --> 01:03:37,300
it was raining down there heavily.

1064
01:03:37,300 --> 01:03:40,880
And the other LIFE
photographers who were assigned

1065
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:45,410
were working with reporters
at certain fixed positions,

1066
01:03:45,410 --> 01:03:48,420
under umbrellas they were standing there.

1067
01:03:48,420 --> 01:03:51,530
But I was so wet at that point,

1068
01:03:51,530 --> 01:03:53,320
and I thought the only thing I can do

1069
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:58,320
is follow along side the procession.

1070
01:03:58,550 --> 01:03:59,840
And I did,

1071
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:04,840
and I made a wonderful
picture of the procession

1072
01:04:05,260 --> 01:04:10,260
reflected doubly in the
wet pavement below it,

1073
01:04:10,900 --> 01:04:13,570
and that ran as a big double page picture.

1074
01:04:13,570 --> 01:04:16,620
And then I had a picture
of the General's wife

1075
01:04:16,620 --> 01:04:17,900
coming into the funeral.

1076
01:04:17,900 --> 01:04:19,420
All of which was possible,

1077
01:04:19,420 --> 01:04:23,810
because I was no longer trying
to hide from getting wet.

1078
01:04:23,810 --> 01:04:27,288
I was wet enough already.

1079
01:04:27,288 --> 01:04:30,288
(melancholic music)

1080
01:04:32,630 --> 01:04:35,780
This picture of this little girl

1081
01:04:35,780 --> 01:04:39,520
with tears in her eyes
behind this rope line,

1082
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:42,830
is my favorite picture of all time.

1083
01:04:42,830 --> 01:04:47,830
It was shot early in my
career, somewhere early 1960s.

1084
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:51,587
And I've shot thousands of images since,

1085
01:04:51,587 --> 01:04:54,230
but this remains my favorite.

1086
01:04:54,230 --> 01:04:59,230
It was a situation where
a United States submarine,

1087
01:04:59,410 --> 01:05:01,780
the first atomic powered submarine,

1088
01:05:01,780 --> 01:05:05,180
in fact called the USS Triton

1089
01:05:06,090 --> 01:05:09,463
circumnavigated the globe underwater.

1090
01:05:10,630 --> 01:05:13,873
And they we're coming home to New London,

1091
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:18,750
and this little girl's father
was one of the sailors.

1092
01:05:18,750 --> 01:05:21,393
And when I saw her,

1093
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:30,070
tears were coming down
her face from both eyes

1094
01:05:30,070 --> 01:05:32,203
just a single tear.

1095
01:05:33,210 --> 01:05:36,040
And I thought, Oh my gosh!

1096
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,200
And I captured that,

1097
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:43,200
and it forever remains my
best emotional picture.

1098
01:05:46,810 --> 01:05:49,970
You could feel what she was thinking

1099
01:05:49,970 --> 01:05:54,090
the excitement to see her
father again and whatnot.

1100
01:05:54,090 --> 01:05:55,940
But I have to tell you a funny story.

1101
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:59,920
When the picture ran as
a full page in the LIFE,

1102
01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:02,730
one of my associates, Stan Wayman,

1103
01:06:02,730 --> 01:06:04,420
another very fine photographer

1104
01:06:06,580 --> 01:06:09,550
was kidding me one day and he said,

1105
01:06:09,550 --> 01:06:12,570
Bob, what kind of eyedropper do you use

1106
01:06:12,570 --> 01:06:15,853
for those liquid tears in that picture?

1107
01:06:16,870 --> 01:06:21,760
And I haven't forgotten his
remark, his joking remark.

1108
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,280
But to this day,

1109
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,300
if I had to put up one
picture that represents

1110
01:06:26,300 --> 01:06:29,600
the best I ever did,
the Triton homecoming,

1111
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:31,600
the little girl with tears, would be it.

1112
01:06:34,585 --> 01:06:37,002
(calm music)