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...accompany him to the Democratic Convention this week. Among them are Ken Regan, who, in addition to photographing every major candidate this year, provided the color photography for this week's Essay on the Rolling Stones and this week's cover photo; Pulitzer Prizewinner Eddie Adams; Yoichi Okamoto, President Johnson's White House photographer and Walter Bennett of our Washington Bureau, who has been capturing the capital on film for two decades...
...compensation from his government, amounting to roughly $5,000 per injured survivor of the Lod massacre and $10,000 each for the families of the dead. Meanwhile, in a poignant letter to Israeli Premier Golda Meir, the former schoolteacher father of the surviving gunman, Kozo Okamoto, pleaded that "my son be executed as soon as possible after he is given relentless investigation...
...which has brought a new kind of terror to the world, has also provided the means by which radical groups as ideologically alike but logistically separate as the Japanese and Palestinians can get together in a kind of terrorists international. Japanese Assassin Kozo Okamoto, for instance, was apparently recruited by an Arab who flew into Japan to show a film on commando warfare. While there, the Arab also surreptitiously offered disenchanted Japanese students forged passports, air fare and a chance for a twisted kind of glory...
WHEN Lyndon Johnson's personal effects were trucked out of the White House, they contained at least 500,000 pictures of the President, his family and subordinates, taken by L.B.J.'s ubiquitous official photographer, Yoichi Okamoto, 54. Okamoto had served the President as a sort of benign paparazzo during the White House years, recording most of L.B.J.'s waking moments and some of his sleeping ones, too. The photographer was a familiar sight at every Cabinet meeting, every National Security Council meeting. Johnson wanted Okamoto with him constantly, taking pictures of L.B.J. with Congressmen, L.B.J. with Kosygin...
Nixon's reserve does not indicate an increase in White House secrecy, says Atkins. Despite Okamoto's constant presence, Johnson was always very careful about which photos were released, screening each shot personally. "If a picture was disapproved, it would disappear forever," says Atkins. Nixon, in contrast, leaves such matters to Atkins. "You can photograph Nixon up and down, front and back," says Atkins. "He doesn't care...