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"Through Their Eyes-The Presidential Photographers"

7/18/2018

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  About a year ago I attended a preview of a documentary film at the Bush Presidential Library in College Station,Texas, about Viet Nam Veterans. After the viewing I met the director of the documentary Don Smith of KWTX-CBS out of Waco,Texas. He was very interested in doing his next documentary film on me because I was a Presidential Photographer. I suggested since in the history of the United States there have only been 10 named Presidential Photographers that he do his documentary on all of the Presidential Photographers. Well he decided on the spot to do that and for the past year Don has been interviewing the living Presidential Photographers.
The first Presidential Photographer was Yoichi Okamoto for President Lyndon Johnson. As most people recall the photo of President Johnson being sworn in after the assignation of President John Kennedy was taken by Cecial Stoughton. Cecial was a military photographer. Yoichi was the first civilian photographer directly assigned to photograph the President of the United States. The other Presidential Photographers include Ollie Atkins for President Nixon, David Hume Kennerly for President Ford, Michael Evans for President Reagan, myself, David Valdez for President George H.W. Bush, Robert McNelly and Sharon Farmer for President Clinton, Eric Draper for President George W. Bush, Pete Souza for President Obama and Shealah Craighead with President Trump.
The documentary "Through Their Eyes-The Presidential Photographers" will feature all the living Presidential Photographers where you will see and hear their personal stories. The film is due out early 2019. See the trailer on YouTube.
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7/26/2018 08:32:34 am

It was such a delight that you were able to watch the documentary film that focuses on Nam Veterans. Many people have this simple desire to know it, but only few people were given passes to watch the said special film. There was a slight desire for me, but I just need to move on and forget this feeling of envious that I have, Hopefully, it will be open to the public so that more viewers will get the chance to watch this documentary film!

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