David Hume Kennerly Oral History
Kennerly was attending high school in Roseburg, Oregon during the Kennedy years. His first published photograph appeared in his high school newspaper in 1962. After graduation, he worked for Oregon newspapers until joining United Press International in 1967. He ultimately became UPI's photo bureau chief in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War before leaving UPI to become a contract photographer for Time-Life. Notably, Kennerly has photographed every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson.
The same day this oral history was recorded, Kennerly joined six other Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers for a panel discussion, "Illusion and Disillusion," co-presented by The Sixth Floor Museum at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. The full program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Illusion & Disillusion: A Panel Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographers - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator