Robert Hill Jackson (1934)
Robert Hill Jackson
Robert Hill Jackson or Bob Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer.
Robert attended Southern Methodist University while pursuing a passion for photography. While serving in the National Guard, Jackson became a photographer for an Army general. In 1960, he began working as a photo reporter for the Dallas Times Herald newspaper.
On November 22, 1963, Jackson was assigned to cover President John F. Kennedy's arrival at Love Field and his motorcade through the city. He witnessed Kennedy's assassination, but did not have time to film it. Two days later, however, he was able to photograph the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Lee Harvey Oswald, by Jack Ruby in the garage of the Dallas police station. Robert Jackson was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography for these photographs.
| Date and place of birt: | 8 april 1934, Dallas, USA |
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| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Journalist, Photographer |
| Genre: | Documentary photography, Reportage |
| Art style: | Post War Art, Black & white photo, Contemporary art |
