"(Robert Jackson Ellison was) ..."the young white photographer who lived free of prejudice, full of understanding and respectful of the rights of men." - EBONY Magazine, 1968
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Graduating from the University of Florida, where he switched his major from herpetology to photography, Robert Jackson Ellison went on to photograph the march of Dr. Martin Luther King from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery for EBONY magazine. He then went on to cover other civil rights marches. Ellison arrived in Vietnam for the 1968 Tet Offensive, and bribed his way onto a helicopter headed for Khe Sanh with a case of beer and a box of cigars. A month after Ellison's C-123 cargo plane was shot down while attempting to take off from Khe Sanh, Dr. King was assassinated. EBONY eulogized both men in an editorial describing Ellison as "the young white photographer who lived free of prejudice, full of understanding and respectful of the rights of men." Published after he died, Ellison's NEWSWEEK photographs posthumously won him the Overseas Press Club's award for best coverage from abroad. Bob Ellison and the Marines on that fatal flight are buried in a mass grave in a military cemetery in Missouri.
Source: (Requiem/ Dirck Halstead), http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req31.htm
The following information was posted at the time of management transfer; I am presently researching PFC Ellison and would appreciate any information or details about this hero - Please message me through the "Suggest An Edit" feature on this page. Thank You.
Graduating from the University of Florida, where he switched his major from herpetology to photography, Robert Jackson Ellison went on to photograph the march of Dr. Martin Luther King from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery for EBONY magazine. He then went on to cover other civil rights marches. Ellison arrived in Vietnam for the 1968 Tet Offensive, and bribed his way onto a helicopter headed for Khe Sanh with a case of beer and a box of cigars. A month after Ellison's C-123 cargo plane was shot down while attempting to take off from Khe Sanh, Dr. King was assassinated. EBONY eulogized both men in an editorial describing Ellison as "the young white photographer who lived free of prejudice, full of understanding and respectful of the rights of men." Published after he died, Ellison's NEWSWEEK photographs posthumously won him the Overseas Press Club's award for best coverage from abroad. Bob Ellison and the Marines on that fatal flight are buried in a mass grave in a military cemetery in Missouri.
Source: (Requiem/ Dirck Halstead), http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req31.htm
"(Robert Jackson Ellison was) ..."the young white photographer who lived free of prejudice, full of understanding and respectful of the rights of men." - EBONY Magazine, 1968
The following information was posted at the time of management transfer; I am presently researching PFC Ellison and would appreciate any information or details about this hero - Please message me through the "Suggest An Edit" feature on this page. Thank You.
Graduating from the University of Florida, where he switched his major from herpetology to photography, Robert Jackson Ellison went on to photograph the march of Dr. Martin Luther King from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery for EBONY magazine. He then went on to cover other civil rights marches. Ellison arrived in Vietnam for the 1968 Tet Offensive, and bribed his way onto a helicopter headed for Khe Sanh with a case of beer and a box of cigars. A month after Ellison's C-123 cargo plane was shot down while attempting to take off from Khe Sanh, Dr. King was assassinated. EBONY eulogized both men in an editorial describing Ellison as "the young white photographer who lived free of prejudice, full of understanding and respectful of the rights of men." Published after he died, Ellison's NEWSWEEK photographs posthumously won him the Overseas Press Club's award for best coverage from abroad. Bob Ellison and the Marines on that fatal flight are buried in a mass grave in a military cemetery in Missouri.
Source: (Requiem/ Dirck Halstead), http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req31.htm
The following information was posted at the time of management transfer; I am presently researching PFC Ellison and would appreciate any information or details about this hero - Please message me through the "Suggest An Edit" feature on this page. Thank You.
Graduating from the University of Florida, where he switched his major from herpetology to photography, Robert Jackson Ellison went on to photograph the march of Dr. Martin Luther King from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery for EBONY magazine. He then went on to cover other civil rights marches. Ellison arrived in Vietnam for the 1968 Tet Offensive, and bribed his way onto a helicopter headed for Khe Sanh with a case of beer and a box of cigars. A month after Ellison's C-123 cargo plane was shot down while attempting to take off from Khe Sanh, Dr. King was assassinated. EBONY eulogized both men in an editorial describing Ellison as "the young white photographer who lived free of prejudice, full of understanding and respectful of the rights of men." Published after he died, Ellison's NEWSWEEK photographs posthumously won him the Overseas Press Club's award for best coverage from abroad. Bob Ellison and the Marines on that fatal flight are buried in a mass grave in a military cemetery in Missouri.
Source: (Requiem/ Dirck Halstead), http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req31.htm
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