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During the newsreel and early television era, photographers often risked their lives to get the story. This is the biography of one of those early cameramen. Using John Bocky Bockhorst's own words and films as a guide, this work follows his life and adventures as a newsreel cameraman. As William Randolph Hearst's ace aerial photographer, Bocky had exciting and life-threatening adventures all over the world. These adventures included filming both World Wars, being awarded a Medal of Freedom, capturing a Nazi war criminal, being the first Western journalist to film Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped on it, filming innumerable U.S. Presidents and other world dignitaries, surviving at least five plane crashes, finding a sunken submarine, escaping death on another sunken submarine, filming natural disasters and other tragic news events such as the Picatinny Arsenal explosion, assisting the U.S. Post Office map the first air mail routes to the West Coast, and filming decommissioned warships being sunk in training exercises as well as filming numerous other military exercises and drills. In short, Bocky led a life of adventure bringing the news of the day to the general public and now you can live those adventures too.

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