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Post by kiev4a on Jan 25, 2006 21:34:03 GMT -5
1968 was a presidential election year in the states and the contest were so close the candidates for both parties got out in the hinterlands. Both of the pictures below were shot with a Nikon F. The lens was probably a preset Vivitar 135mm f2.8 (couldn't afford Nikkors then) I shot this photo of Robert Kennedy in Ontario, Oregon about two weeks before he was killed. I took the Nixon photo when he spoke on the steps of the Capitol in Boise, Idaho. I was working for a newspaper at the time.   |
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Post by sinedyar on Jan 25, 2006 22:23:53 GMT -5
1968 was the first presidential election in which I was able to vote.
Denis
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Post by kiev4a on Jan 25, 2006 22:36:56 GMT -5
Denis:
I've got one year on you.
Wayne
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Post by sinedyar on Jan 25, 2006 22:52:52 GMT -5
Wayne:
If I remember correctly, the voting age had been changed to 18 my the 1968 election, but after the 1964 election, so by the time it came around I was already 22, while still being too young during the 1964 election.
Denis
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Post by PeterW on Jan 26, 2006 5:31:15 GMT -5
Two excellent shots, Wayne, particularly the Kennedy one, in difficult conditions with other photogs and people generally jostling all round you. You caught the right moments, and your editor must have been pleased with them. Newspaper readers take these sort of shots for granted without the faintest idea of the professional skill and sweat that went into getting them.
Peter
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Post by Randy on Jan 26, 2006 7:23:30 GMT -5
Very nice photos Wayne. They bring back lots of memories. I turned 17 a month before the 1968 election, and the events of that year are etched into my mind forever.
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Post by kiev4a on Jan 26, 2006 9:47:51 GMT -5
1968 was the first presidential election in which I was able to vote. Denis I think I was in the same position. I helped with some campaigns in 1964 but I wasn't old enough to actually vote. |
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Post by screaminscott on Feb 15, 2006 23:16:00 GMT -5
I'm a little late putting my 2 cents in...I graduated from high school the year prior to 1968 & was not interested in politics at the time...Did not vote in the 68 elections & enlisted in the Army in November 1967...I thankfully was rejected as I have hearing loss in both ears...Otherwise I'd have gone to Nam...I qualified for OCS (officer candidate school) which once completed,would have put me right on the front lines...Youthful stupidity, luckily I didn't make it...I was an angry young man back then..
Scott
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Post by herron on Feb 15, 2006 23:40:09 GMT -5
![]() www.mamiya35collectors.com/antiwarWSU 1968.jpg[/img] Scott: There were a lot of angry young men around that time. I was 20 in 1968...still enjoying the last of my college deferment...and very much against the war in Vietnam. This shot was at an anti-war rally on campus that year. I've forgotten who the speaker was. This was a tight shot of the podium area...you can't see the several thousand folks (and riot police) who were in attendance! I had to push my way forward to get the shot, and even then was holding the camera over my head, so I could shoot over the heads of the few people still in front of me! Sold this shot to a couple of underground newspapers! It was shot on Plus-X film with my Mamiya 1000 DTL. |
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