A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy and the 1968 Election

Speaker:

Bill Eppridge

19 Oct 2008

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Bill Eppridge has been a photographer for such popular magazines as National Geographic, LIFE, People, and Sports Illustrated since 1961. His collective assignments read like a list of the most important historical and cultural events from the latter half of the twentieth century: the Kennedy campaigns, the Beatles first visit to America, Woodstock, Vietnam. His most recent book, A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, shares his intimate coverage of the presidential candidate, including the iconic photograph of a stunned Los Angeles busboy cradling Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel just seconds after he was shot. In 1996 Eppridge received the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, the National Press Photographer Association’s highest award, in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in photojournalism.

---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.