Re: [Leica] John John Picture

["GPYLE" <gpyle@netnitco.net>]

I'll bet that he was very interesting to talk with.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: steve lehuray <icommag@toad.net>
To: Leica LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: [Leica] John John Picture


> This morning I had the incredible pleasure of meeting Stan Stearns who was
> the photographer who in 1963 took the picture of little John John saluting
> JFK as his casket rolled by. He took the picture with a Nikon F and he was
> working for UPI at the time. I met him by chance in downtown Annapolis
while
> I was running some errands he commented on the Leica that I was carrying
and
> in the course of our two hour long conversation it came out that he was
the
> John John photographer. I have known his name for a long time here in
> Annapolis as a commercial photographer but I never knew that he had taken
> that picture. By the way, it also came out that he is suffering severe
> mental depression and his photography business is going down the drain and
> he is worried about his future.
> Steve
> Annapolis
>