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Digitized from Box 1 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
AUGUST 11, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
David Hume Kennerly, 27, has been named personal photographer
to the President.
Mr. Kennerly was born on March 9, 1947, in Roseburg, Oregon,
and attended West Linn, Oregon, High School and Portland
State College. He began his professional career as a staff
photographer for the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian in
Portland and was then a staff photographer for United Press
International in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D. C.
He was Bureau Chief of UPI Newspictures in Vietnam during
1971-72. Mr. Kennerly won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature
Photography for coverage of the Vietnam war.
He then worked as a contract photographer for Life, then Time
magazine in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Paris and Washington, D.C.
He covered three wars: Vietnam, India-Pakistan (1971) and
Mozambique (1973). and was with the group of newsmen who
went to Hanoi to witness the last POW release in 1973. He
also traveled with Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan to the
People's Republic of China in 1972.
Mr. Kennerly is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O.A. Kennerly of
Chicago. He resides in Washington, D.C.
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