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David Hume Kennerly gives oral history of Nixon years

david-hume-kennerly-oral-hi.jpg David Hume Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 (at age 25) for his combat photography of the Vietnam War and was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night in June, 1968 that Robert F. Kennedy was shot. Kennerly covered Richard Nixon from the 1968 presidential campaign to Nixon's resignation in 1974, then became President Gerald Ford's White House photographer. The Nixon Presidential Library videotaped an oral history of those years with Kennerly that is posted at C-SPAN.org.


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