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Perspective | Washington Post staff photographer remembers friend and fellow photographer Wally McNamee

Washington Post staff photographer remembers prize winning photojournalist Wally McNamee, who worked for The Washington Post and Newsweek for over 40 years.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/11/22/washington-post-staff-photographer-remembers-friend-and-mentor-wally-mcnamee/

Post staff writer Bart Barnes, in McNamee’s obituary, wrote: “Among his most memorable pictures was a photograph of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy disembarking from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Nov. 22, 1963, hours after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. The president’s brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, is holding her hand, and she is still wearing the suit stained with the president’s blood spattered on her by the assassin’s bullets. Mr. McNamee later described it as “a graphic touch to this horrible moment.”