(Photo: Tony Zappone)
I got off one shot (bad choice of words in retrospect) with the telephoto lens. The best picture, the first I took, appeared the following day on one of two picture pages in The Tampa Tribune devoted to the president’s visit.
His car was escorted by police officers on motorcycles and I nearly got run over by one of them who recognized me at the last minute and quickly swerved away. It was Officer J. D. Stanton who later told me he was ordered to drive straight and run down anybody who got too close to the president…and from everything I remembered I totally believed him.