Arthur M. Uhlmann was a nationally award-winning photojournalist who began his career with the Milwaukee Journal in 1947 and in 1961 moved to the Houston Chronicle.
On November 22, 1963, he was covering the Kennedy campaign visit to Dallas-Ft. Worth as the photographer for the Houston Chronicle (he possibly also covered the stops in Houston and San Antonio on that trip). In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or earwitness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters - NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, and a FWST photographer, Harry Cabluck, at the insistence of McNeil; however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 on which Uhlman and his colleagues were riding, refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. So, Uhlmann and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however their bus did go on to Parkland Hospital, where certainly he would have taken photos of the chaos. There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff and DNC members and others.
Other Houston Chronicle colleagues with him on Press Bus No.2 were: veteran reporter, Mary Rice Brogan (Austin Bureau); Bo Byers, Chief of the Austin Bureau, and another nationally renowned award-winning photographer, Ted Rozumalski. They stayed in Dallas and covered the unfolding events that weekend.
Bio above submitted by Find A Grave contributor Linda
On November 22, 1963, he was covering the Kennedy campaign visit to Dallas-Ft. Worth as the photographer for the Houston Chronicle (he possibly also covered the stops in Houston and San Antonio on that trip). In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or earwitness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters - NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, and a FWST photographer, Harry Cabluck, at the insistence of McNeil; however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 on which Uhlman and his colleagues were riding, refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. So, Uhlmann and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however their bus did go on to Parkland Hospital, where certainly he would have taken photos of the chaos. There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff and DNC members and others.
Other Houston Chronicle colleagues with him on Press Bus No.2 were: veteran reporter, Mary Rice Brogan (Austin Bureau); Bo Byers, Chief of the Austin Bureau, and another nationally renowned award-winning photographer, Ted Rozumalski. They stayed in Dallas and covered the unfolding events that weekend.
Bio above submitted by Find A Grave contributor Linda
Arthur M. Uhlmann was a nationally award-winning photojournalist who began his career with the Milwaukee Journal in 1947 and in 1961 moved to the Houston Chronicle.
On November 22, 1963, he was covering the Kennedy campaign visit to Dallas-Ft. Worth as the photographer for the Houston Chronicle (he possibly also covered the stops in Houston and San Antonio on that trip). In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or earwitness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters - NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, and a FWST photographer, Harry Cabluck, at the insistence of McNeil; however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 on which Uhlman and his colleagues were riding, refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. So, Uhlmann and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however their bus did go on to Parkland Hospital, where certainly he would have taken photos of the chaos. There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff and DNC members and others.
Other Houston Chronicle colleagues with him on Press Bus No.2 were: veteran reporter, Mary Rice Brogan (Austin Bureau); Bo Byers, Chief of the Austin Bureau, and another nationally renowned award-winning photographer, Ted Rozumalski. They stayed in Dallas and covered the unfolding events that weekend.
Bio above submitted by Find A Grave contributor Linda
On November 22, 1963, he was covering the Kennedy campaign visit to Dallas-Ft. Worth as the photographer for the Houston Chronicle (he possibly also covered the stops in Houston and San Antonio on that trip). In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or earwitness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters - NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, and a FWST photographer, Harry Cabluck, at the insistence of McNeil; however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 on which Uhlman and his colleagues were riding, refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. So, Uhlmann and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however their bus did go on to Parkland Hospital, where certainly he would have taken photos of the chaos. There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff and DNC members and others.
Other Houston Chronicle colleagues with him on Press Bus No.2 were: veteran reporter, Mary Rice Brogan (Austin Bureau); Bo Byers, Chief of the Austin Bureau, and another nationally renowned award-winning photographer, Ted Rozumalski. They stayed in Dallas and covered the unfolding events that weekend.
Bio above submitted by Find A Grave contributor Linda
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