- Has a daughter Barbara.
- Served in the United States Army where he worked on the military newspaper Stars & Stripes.
- Led The Associated Press' photo operations from the darkroom era into the age of digital photography over a four-decade career with the news organization that included 12 Pulitzer Prizes and running some of the defining images of the Vietnam War. He began with AP in 1956 and retired in 1997.
- Worked closely with legendary Associated Press photographers Eddie Adams, Horst Faas and Nick Ut.
- Graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1954 with bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism.
- Wrote books about photography, including "From Hell to Hollywood: The Incredible Journey of AP Photographer Nick Ut;" "Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and the Photograph That Captured America;" and "The Kennedy Brothers: A Legacy in Photographs." He was the author of more than a dozen other books, produced film documentaries for the History Channel and lectured across the United States.
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