During my stint with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin I was approach to leave and join United Press International as Newspicture Bureau Manager in Sacramento, California. During my time with UPI I covered many diverse assignments from presidential visits, forest fires, winter Olympics, NBA, NCAA. NFL playoffs and the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Working with UPI was a highlight of my journey. It was fun going up against the AP with it’s much larger operation and going head to head on big stories. UPI was a great training ground and produced a large number of photographers who are considered some of the best in the business today.
Mount St. Helens
Traveling with search and rescue teams looking for survivors after Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.
California Klu Klux Klan held meetings in the Bay Area and Sacramento area in the seventies.
My basic coverage was the California legislature including Gov. Ronald Reagan and then Gov. Jerry Brown. In 1980 I was ask to cover Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign and covered it through the inauguration. After the campaign was over I was approached by the Associated Press to come to work for them in the Washington D.C. bureau to cover the White House.
Ronald Reagan receives a gift horse named El Alemein from Mexican President José López Portillo in 1981.
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