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...Cecil Stoughton was sweating profusely. Scrunched against the bulkhead of Air Force One, the stocky Army captain was trying to take pictures of Lyndon Johnson as he recited the presidential oath of office at Dallas' Love Field. When he had first used the flash attachment a few minutes before, it had not worked, but after a bit of jiggling with the connection, all seemed well. The pictures were taken, and then Stoughton remembered his custom of shooting from different angles to show as many of the people present as possible. He had always done it, then sent out prints...
...Draped Arm. By last week, Cecil Stoughton's photographs were the center of a small but heated controversy. Just who was present during L.B.J.'s inaugural oath? Asked about it on Meet the Press, Author William Manchester reiterated what he had reported in a Look installment of The Death of a President: every male Kennedy aide, except Dr. George Burkley, had insultingly ducked the swearing-in. Stoughton's pictures show that Manchester is wrong...
...pictures, of course, demonstrate the presence of still another Kennedy aide-Stoughton himself-who Manchester knew was there but whom he forgot to count. Stoughton was J.F.K.'s official photographer from the start of his presidency. But he is used to being anonymous. Though his pictures have run in virtually every newspaper and magazine in the world, he is rarely credited and never paid royalties. Because of his military status (he is now a major), all his output is Government property. Much of it is superb. Jackie's favorite was taken only a week before the assassination...
Abrupt Transfer. In Dallas, Stoughton was too overcome to take pictures of the weeping aides in the corridors of Parkland Hospital, but when Johnson went by in a bustle of security men, Stoughton asked where they were going. "The President is going to Washington," came the answer. The title stunned Stoughton, but he quickly decided he should be with "the President." In a commandeered car, he raced to the plane. Afterward, he stayed on as a White House photographer, and then 18 months later, when the Kennedy family was going to England for the dedication of the Runnymede monument...
...Last week the Boston Globe published a Page One picture showing O'Donnell standing at Jackie's left during the swearing-in. And Stoughton says that other photos he took, which Manchester never asked to see, showed that Kennedy aides, Larry O'Brien and Dave Powers, were also present. Mary Gallagher now says she does not recall telling the story as Manchester reported it. O'Donnell himself asserts that Manchester never asked him about...