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Boston Globe
39 minutes ago
- Boston Globe
Award-winning AP photographer Bob Daugherty captured history with speed and persistence
In a 43-year career, he covered nine presidents, 22 political conventions, the Watergate hearings, the Paris Peace Talks over the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and presidential trips overseas. He also covered dozens of high-stakes sporting events including the Olympic Games, Masters Tournaments, and Kentucky Derby races. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up J. David Ake, who retired as AP's director of photography, said Mr. Daugherty also became a 'tack-sharp leader' focused on helping photojournalists do their best work. Advertisement 'His goal was to make everyone who worked with him or for him better,' Ake said. 'Because he understood what it took to make a good frame and get it on the wire, no matter what, he was always there to lend a hand, make a suggestion, or just run interference. And it didn't hurt; he was the kindest man you will ever meet.' Mr. Daugherty learned the power of photography early as he distributed a community newspaper to local farmers. He later recalled one of the recipients telling him, 'You know I can't read, but I sure like the pictures.' Advertisement After the family moved to Marion, Ind., Mr. Daugherty shot pictures for his high school yearbook, which led to a job with the local Marion Chronicle-Tribune. He next worked at the Indianapolis Star, where he met Stephanie Hoppes, a staff writer. They were married on Dec. 7, 1963. With no money to pay for college, Mr. Daugherty later said, 'I earned my junior college degree at the Marion Chronicle, bachelor's degree at the Star, and master's with the Associated Press.' Although the couple traveled extensively in retirement, Stephanie Daugherty said she never accompanied her husband on his overseas work trips, such as Nixon's groundbreaking visit to China in 1972. 'He was very dedicated to doing his best and he didn't want me as a distraction,' she said. Persistence, timing, and speed were keys to Mr. Daugherty's success in Washington. Hearing that Johnson was writing a speech on a Saturday in the spring of 1968, Mr. Daugherty badgered a press aide until he was let in to shoot a haggard, open-collared LBJ writing the speech declining his party's nomination. President Johnson, working on his speech in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, on March 30, 1968. Bob Daugherty/Associated Press Mr. Daugherty positioned himself for a straight-on view of Nixon flashing 'V for victory' hand signs at the door to a helicopter on the White House lawn, minutes after becoming the first president to resign in 1974. When Carter grasped the handshake of Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat after the signing of a 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, Mr. Daugherty captured the moment in nearly identical color and black-and-white images. At the time, this required him to use two separate cameras. Advertisement When Carter visited Kentucky in July 1979, other photographers ditched what was expected to be a routine motorcade to an event at a school. But Mr. Daugherty stayed, catching the normally staid Carter seated on top of the presidential limousine to greet well-wishers. He later said that photo was a favorite among all the images he made of US presidents. 'You must stay alert when you're with the president,' Daugherty said. 'You must be prepared.' President Carter leaned across the roof of his car to shake hands along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky., on July 31, 1979. Bob Daugherty/Associated Press 'Bob was a legend,' said Pablo Martínez Monsiváis, assistant photo chief for AP's Washington bureau. Asked about an iconic photograph, Mr. Daugherty would describe all the planning that went into the shot or simply say, 'I got lucky.' 'If anyone was lucky, it was me who got to work with him,' Monsiváis recalled. In 2009, the White House News Photographers Association presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also a soccer coach and swim-meet official for his son John, said his wife, and in retirement never missed a chance to watch the sun set over the Morse Reservoir, where the couple lived.
Bloomberg
40 minutes ago
- Bloomberg
How We Avoided World War III
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 80 years ago this week is something to commemorate but not celebrate. It was also the beginning of a new era: the Atomic Age. Growing up in the latter stages of the Cold War, my generation didn't live with the sense of menace and the Bert the Turtle duck-and-cover drills baby boomers endured. But both cohorts were blessed by the absence of a large-scale war, conventional or nuclear, between the US and the Soviet Union. Which brings up an 80-year-old question: Did the development of atomic weapons keep the peace during the Cold War? And if so, what accounts for this paradoxical result? The simple answer is the unsatisfying one: It's complicated.
Associated Press
an hour ago
- Associated Press
Josh Brolin's journey to 'Weapons'
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world's population sees AP journalism every day.
