David Hume Kennerly Oral History
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David Hume Kennerly Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with David Hume Kennerly. A photojournalist for more than half a century, Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his images of the Vietnam War. Previously, he had covered Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 when Kennedy was shot. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 21, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-one minutes long.
David Hume Kennerly Oral History
09/21/2016
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 51 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2016.001.0100
Kennerly was attending high school in Roseburg, Oregon during the Kennedy years. His first published photograph appeared in his high school newspaper in 1962. After graduation, he worked for Oregon newspapers until joining United Press International in 1967. He ultimately became UPI's photo bureau chief in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War before leaving UPI to become a contract photographer for Time-Life. Notably, Kennerly has photographed every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson. The same day this oral history was recorded, Kennerly joined six other Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers for a panel discussion, "Illusion and Disillusion," co-presented by The Sixth Floor Museum at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. The full program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Illusion & Disillusion: A Panel Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographers - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
David Hume Kennerly Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with David Hume Kennerly. A photojournalist for more than half a century, Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his images of the Vietnam War. Previously, he had covered Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 when Kennedy was shot. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 21, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-one minutes long.
David Hume Kennerly Oral History
09/21/2016
Oral histories
Photographer
Press
Reporter
Vietnam
Kennedy, Robert F.
Ambassador Hotel
United Press International (UPI)
Dallas
Los Angeles
Childhood Recollections (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Vietnam (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 51 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2016.001.0100
Kennerly was attending high school in Roseburg, Oregon during the Kennedy years. His first published photograph appeared in his high school newspaper in 1962. After graduation, he worked for Oregon newspapers until joining United Press International in 1967. He ultimately became UPI's photo bureau chief in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War before leaving UPI to become a contract photographer for Time-Life. Notably, Kennerly has photographed every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson. The same day this oral history was recorded, Kennerly joined six other Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers for a panel discussion, "Illusion and Disillusion," co-presented by The Sixth Floor Museum at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. The full program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Illusion & Disillusion: A Panel Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographers - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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