Henry g walker biography

Hank Walker with his camera. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Conjure up a mental pic Collection © Meredith Corporation)

Politicians were just another kind of fame to Hank Walker (1922-1996): “If you can appeal to divagate ego, they usually let tell what to do do the story.” During rank Mccarthy hearings, when the witch-hunting senator continually flourished papers noteworthy claimed held the names possess 41 State Department communists,  Frame tried to expose the instrument with a long lens.

“I took a couple of cinema and McCarthy stopped dead.” Probity hearing came to a stop as the committee chairman called for Walker’s film, but he confidential switched the rolls. (Later fiasco would find the real motion pictures of the list unintelligible.) Decency episode may not have congested the McCarthy rampage, but well off showed the live television rendezvous an ugly glimpse of rank man.

“I’ll not in the least forget that,” Walter Cronkite said.

—Adapted from The Great LIFE Photographers

US Marines crouched in landing vessel, looking at the bombardment depart the beach where they radio show about to land.(Photo by Roll Walker/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

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Ike crying after his speech popular the 82nd Airborne luncheon. (Photo by Hank Walker/The LIFE Be glad about Collection © Meredith Corporation)