Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds has died. He was 77 and died Friday night in Virginia. Edmonds was new to the job covering the Reagan White House when the president went to a Washington hotel in March 1981 to give a speech.
FILE - Ron Edmonds, retired senior White House photographer for the Associated Press , poses for a portrait at his home in Annandale, Va., March 16, 2013. Edmonds, who won a Pulitzer Prize for photographing the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, died Friday, May 31, 2024, in Virginia at age 77. FILE - President Ronald Reagan winces and raises his left arm as he was shot by an assailant as he left a Washington hotel, Monday, March 30, 1981.
Would it be blurry because Reagan was whisked away so fast? Edmonds had to wait until the film was processed so he could see the negatives and know whether he had anything. Edmonds sold one of his images for $25 to United Press International. “I saw it in the newspaper the next day, and I knew what I wanted to do for a living.
“Opting for a bigger pond,” he wrote, Edmonds joined UPI in Sacramento in 1978 as a newspicture bureau manager.
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