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About the only thing Lawrence Journal-World senior editor Bill Snead has been longer than being a journalist is being a Kansan. From his days as a UPI photographer in Vietnam to being a photo editor at National Geographic to being named "White House Photographer of the Year" while at the Washington Post, Snead's roots eventually pulled him home. This section celebrates nearly 50 years of Snead's globe-spanning work for newspapers, magazines, the Internet and any other place that needed just the right photograph. Read more about Bill Snead | Read Bill's bio | Contact Bill. On Aug. 27th, Bill Snead was the featured guest on the Kansas City NPR program "up/to/date" with host Steve Kraske. Listen to the program ... Watch KMBC Channel 9 News' Sep. 3rd story on Bill. Watch video ... Watch the River City Chronicles' Sep. 22nd story on Bill. In part 1, he talks about the early days of his career.Watch video ... Watch the River City Chronicles' Sep. 22nd story on Bill. In part 2, he remembers his time in Vietnam, at the National Geographic, and at the Washington Post.Watch video ... Watch the River City Chronicles' Sep. 22nd story on Bill. In part 3, he recalls photographing the Beatles and talks about the current exhibit of his works.Watch video ... Bill Snead photo show information"From Kansas to Yonder and Back," a 50-year retrospective of photographs by Journal-World senior editor Bill Snead, will open with a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Image Point Gallery, 1515 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. The show will hang through Oct. 28. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. StoriesSnead on Snead:Journal-World photographer and senior editor traveled the world to snap the 50 years worth of photos in his retrospective exhibit Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004 
Legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee was talking about his autobiography, "A Good Life," which heralds his adventures as a reporter and editor way before and beyond Watergate. "If you think, at age 70-plus, that it doesn't take guts to try to recall a lifetime in this business ... just wait, buddy," he said, laughing. Today, I know what he was saying. Read story. Online Editor's Note: Senior editor Bill Snead is one of the most converged journalists working for the Journal-World, 6News and LJWorld.com. The following are a few examples of Snead's multimedia approach to storytelling. An honor to lead themKansas maneuvers prepare troops for Iraq Sunday, June 12, 2005 
Soldiers in Alpha Company, First Platoon, were fanned across the lumpy Kansas landscape thatŐs a piece of Fort Riley. Some were on their stomachs, half-hidden in shin-high grass and others rested on one knee. All carried loaded, automatic weapons and wore 16-pound Kevlar vests lined with bullet-proof ceramic plates. They were flanked on either side by a half-dozen idling Humvees bristling with 50-caliber machine guns that can make a grapefruit-sized hole in a cinder block wall. Read story. A cowboy's last handLife had kicks of every kind Sunday, March 27, 2005 
The funeral for Chase County cowboy Dan Matile wouldn't start for more than an hour but mud-streaked pickups, flat-bed trucks and a few sedans were already filling Charter Funerals' parking lot just west of downtown Emporia. Most of the men behind the wheel, middle-aged and older, wore their western headgear low, barely above their ears, the way they were made to be worn. Most shook hands and traded smiles and stories in the parking lot with hands buried in the front pockets of their fresh blue jeans or in the side pockets of stitched, western jackets. There were boots, lots of boots. Read story. Mr. Moran goes to KansasCongressman travels state's highways and byways every weekend to stay connected to constituents in his sprawling 1st District Sunday, July 18, 2004 
It's known as the "Big 1st." It includes 69 counties, a quarter of the state's population and about two-thirds of its area. And for the past eight years, Rep. Jerry Moran has returned nearly every weekend of the session to visit the sprawling 1st Congressional District he represents. Figuring he was well-tuned to Middle America, we asked to ride along as he checked in with constituents during the long Independence Day recess. Over parts of three days, he covered nearly 750 miles of the western end of the state.Read story. Parched PrairieThe Kansas drought of 2002 Sunday, August 25, 2002 
St. Francis - Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate. - Isaiah 62:4. For 20 consecutive nights, people had gathered in the city park here to pray for rain. "This is our act of faith," Bethany Bartlett said as she took a seat on the front row of concrete benches facing the park's band shell, her umbrella in hand. Read story. Freshwater buffalo huntFishery fills its nets at Clinton Lake Sunday, December 22, 2002 
It's sunrise-early on Sunday morning, and cold. J.D. Bell gently throttles his big aluminum flat-bottom boat through a black forest of dead trees poking through the waters of Clinton Lake on the west edge of Lawrence. The exhaust from his 75-horse Johnson clings to the water in small clouds. Read story. The KU CheerleadersAn inside look at Jayhawk Spirit Friday, March 19, 2004 
Today, seconds before the Jayhawks bound onto the floor at Kemper Arena, Kansas University head cheerleader Marcus Bush will sprint across the court carrying a large KU flag streaming behind a 10-foot pole. His energetic cohorts will be close behind running, jumping and punching themselves and their pompoms high into the noisy air. Pulse rates among the crimson and blue faithful will be rising, but the pregame pageantry can bring a lump to the throats of the cheerleaders as well. Read story. Raising Gary: A mother's love and a lot of faithDefiant mom helps son overcome odds Sunday, February 8, 2004 
McLouth - Through the years, Dorothy Rumbaugh hasn't asked for a whole heck of a lot. She's been more giver than taker. She's devoted much of her life to caring for her son Gary, born 57 years ago with Down syndrome. After living in Oskaloosa a number of years, the two now share an old farmhouse in McLouth. For parts of Gary's life, Dorothy had help and support from husband Gordon and son Marty. Marty was 19 when he died of leukemia in 1961. Dorothy's husband died in 1995. Read story. First-grader for a daySunday, September 12, 1999 
Mrs. Paula Barr's first-graders lined up at her classroom door waiting for the buzzer to signal an end to their seven-hour workday. Every single child had a backpack. From the back of the line, they looked like little people ready to parachute their way home. Mrs. Barr was in the doorway, dispensing enthusiasm after dishing it out all day. "Now, what are we not going to say we did when we get home?" Read story.
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