The Acorn Fire was well on its way to burning out 26 homes near Markleeville when I got a phone call from a forest service dispatcher telling me that the Stanislaus Hotshots had left Mi-Wuk Village on their way to the fire. It was about 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, 1987. By the time...
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When I heard that Muhammad Ali was going to speak in Modesto, I immediately started asking Darell Phillips, the Modesto Bee’s Sports Editor, to give me the assignment. It wasn’t until the next day that I checked the photo schedule and saw I was on nights that week, so the assignment would be mine...
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Tags: 1960 Summer Olympics, 1971, Al Golub, boxer, california, Cassius Clay, draft evasion, Gold medal, heavyweight champion of the world, Kentucky, Louisville, May 18, Modesto, Modesto Bee, Muhammad Ali, Parkinson’s syndrome, Sunni Islam, The greatest, U.S. supreme Court
Last week I blogged my 1968 experience with national politics and campaign trains in my blog “Robert F. Kennedy 1968.” A little more than two years later, I got the opportunity to put into action what I had learned when I was given the assignment to cover 1970 U.S. Senatorial candidate John V. Tunney. ...
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Tags: 1970, Al Golub, Burt Lancaster, california, campaign, Congress, Democrat, El Dorado, Gene, George Murphy, Modesto, Modesto Bee, October 24, political, Rafer Johnson, train, U.S. House of Representatives, United States Senator, USAF, whiste stop, Yale
In March of 1968 I had been on the Modesto Bee photo staff just under two years and had long since earned my stripes with the editors and photographers, so I was given my first big assignment of national importance: to photograph Robert F. Kennedy at the Senate Hearings in Stockton, California. As a lifelong...
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Tags: Al Golub, Ambassador Hotel, assassination, Attorney General of the United States, Bobby, california, candidate, central valley, civil liberties, Democratic Party, Ethel, March 1968, Modesto, New York, politics, poor, poverty, presidential primary, RFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan, Stockton, U.S. Senator
