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To: goldworldnet who wrote (181220)	7/19/2009 4:36:19 AM
From: SmoothSail	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

I've always been interested in photography because my dad was a photographer/photo editor. He always got the shot on the first try - none of this digital stuff where you can keep shooting until you get it right. I got to meet a number of very famous Pulitzer Prize winning news photographers because of him - Nick Ut and Joe Rosenthal among others. He had the foresight to take a picture of me with them - pictures that I now treasure. Back in the day, I didn't have an appreciation for the people who stopped by the house or came to one of the many parties my folks had - Jayne Mansfield (have a pix of my dad wrestling with her on the floor while my mother is laughing), Peter Arnett, Helen Thomas, Otis Chandler (owner of the LA Times), Bob Hope - many more. There's over 10,000 negatives that were in my dad's darkroom that I haven't had the chance to go through. A couple of them that I did find are the original negatives from Lee Harvey Oswald being shot and the Hindenberg (which is the first story my dad covered for the AP). I offered them to the AP but they didn't want them - said they didn't have anyone to go through them. Have contacted a couple of universities and libraries, but they say they don't have the personnel to go through them.