Bernie Boston 1933-2008
Captured iconic image
His 'Flower Power' photo caught meeting of war protesters, guardsmen
LA Times
Bernie Boston died January 22nd at age 74. He was a photographer for several different papers, but his signature photo was the one he took Oct. 22, 1967 at an anti-war march against the Pentagon. "It sums up that period, how a lot of people feel about the '60s."
The obituary continues, "Mr.Boston was a photographer for the now-defunct Washington Star when antiwar protesters approached the Pentagon. Positioned on a wall, he watched as a squad of guardsmen marched into the sea of demonstrators. The squad formed a semicircle, their guns pointed at the protestors.
"And this young man appeared with flowers and proceeded...[to] put them down the rifle barrel," said Boston in a 2006 NPR interview.
Actually, he had already placed a flower in one barrel was was proceeding to put another one in when Boston took the shot.
Back at the Star, it wasn't enthusiastically received and wasn't a featured photo.
Talk about your being in the right place at the right time.
Marie Smith Jones 1918-2008
Worked to preserve a rare native language
AP
Marie Smith Jones died January 21st at age 89. She was the last full-blooded member and fluent speaker of the Eyak Indian language of Alaska.
She had worked with Michael Krauss, a linguist professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to have a written record of the language to preserve for future generations.
With her death, the Ewak language became extinct. Currently, there are 20 some other Alaskan Indian languages in the same danger.
It is always sad to see this happen. The world loses just a little bit more of its culture.
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