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A Salute To JIM
On the 36th anniversary of the assassination
of President Kennedy, a look at the Jewish
photographer who snapped one of the most
famous images of the 20th century.
RONA S. HIRSCH
Special to the Jewish News
Author of The Red Tent
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
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every head of state who was anybody. "
The day before President Kennedy
flew to Dallas, Stearns was in the Oval
Office, his necktie flapping. "Kennedy
saw it and reached in his drawer and
pinned on me the PT 109 tie clip," he
recalls. "I was spellbound. He said,
`Here, Stan. I think this looks nicer.'"
After the assassination, Stearns met
Air Force One to photograph
Jacqueline Kennedy — still in her
blood-stained suit — as the first lady
deplaned in Washington, accompany-
ing her husband's coffin.
s a photographer for United
Press International during
the 1960s, Stan Stearns cov-
ered the major events mark-
ing that tumultuous decade — anti-
Vietnam War protests, civil rights
marches, Washington, D.C., riots and
the funeral of an assassinated president.
Among Stearns' most memorable
photographs is the heart-wrenching
shot of 3-year-old John E Kennedy Jr.
saluting his slain father's cas-
ket. The photograph was again
in the public eye — including
a cover of Time magazine —
after the younger Kennedy's
single engine plane plunged
into the waters off Martha's
Vineyard July 16, killing him,
his wife and his sister-in-law.
Stearns' UPI experiences for
more than a dozen years soon
will be told in his upcoming
autobiography; To the White
House and Beyond. But the
Annapolis, Md.-based photog-
rapher, 64, was happy to
recount his venture into the
gritty world of photojournalism
that began with a bar mitzvah
gift, a Brownie Flash 620.
Growing up in an
Stan Stearns: "One exposure, that's all I got. And
Orthodox home in Annapolis,
I knew I had the picture of the funeral."
he dropped out of high school
in 1952 to become a newspa-
One of 25 UPI photographers at
per photographer at the Annapolis
Evening Capital. After receiving a "Dear the funeral, Stearns was assigned to
the Capitol Rotunda, where the casket
John" letter, he enlisted in the U.S. Air
was
on display. "The tears were com-
Stars
and
Force, where he worked for
ing down," he says. "I couldn't focus.
Stripes and Fifth Air Force publications
A woman almost passed out from
at the end of the Korean War.
grief It was unreal."
Hired in 1958 by UPI in
Stearns was one of two photographers
Washington, Stearns later became one
permitted to join the entourage walking
of its seven photographers, eventually
from the White House to St. Matthew's
rotating between Capitol Hill, the
Cathedral for the funeral mass.
White House and general assignments.
"Knowing Jackie as I do, I had a
"Everything that happened in the
sixth sense," he says. "Jackie made a
-'60s, I was there for," he says. "It was
production out of the funeral. So I
exciting for a young photojournalist. I
took out a 200-millimeter photo lens,
was tear-gassed, shot at. I photographed
the longest I had. I watched her expres-
Rona S. Hirsch is a staff writer for the
sions as she walked down the steps. You
Baltimore Jewish Times.
knew something was coming.