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	Joe Rosenthal
		Joe Rosenthall (born 1911) was an American photographer, who received the Pulitzer Prize for his World War II iconic portrait of American troops raising the flag on Mount Suribachi[?] after the Battle of Iwo Jima.
		Rejected by the army as a photographer because of poor eyesight, Rosenthal joined the Associated Press and followed the Marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war.
		Several hours later, Rosenthal photographed a reenactment of the scene, using a larger flag and carefully positioning the men.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joe_Rosenthal.html (178 words)

	Joe Rosenthal
		In 1945, Joe Rosenthal was 33, and as an AP photographer assigned to the Pacific theater of the war, Rosenthal had already distinguished himself photographing battles at New Guinea, Hollandia, Guam, Peleliu and Angaur.
		Joe Rosenthal took one of the most famous photographs of World War II, but only after both the U.S. Army and the Navy had rejected him as a military photographer because his eyesight was impaired.
		Rosenthal was born in Washington, DC on October 9, 1911.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/JRosenthal.html (761 words)

	AP Wire \| 08/21/2006 \| Joe Rosenthal, who photographed Iwo Jima flag-raising, dies at 94
		Rosenthal, who took the iconic photograph on Feb. 23, 1945, while working for The Associated Press, died Sunday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in suburban Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.
		Rosenthal's shutter captured the second raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi after the Marines decided the first flag was too small.
		Rosenthal nevertheless had to defend the photograph against claims that the second flag raising he shot was staged for his camera.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15323361.htm (987 words)

	NPPA Life Member Joseph J. Rosenthal, 94
		Rosenthal was a 33-year-old Associated Press photographer on February 23, 1945, when he photographed U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, a photograph that became an icon of hope amidst struggle and victory in the long-suffering World War II.
		Joe could easily have been a conceited and difficult man, but he was until the end modest, unassuming, and an elder of our profession, always willing to share his insights with the juniors.
		AP says Rosenthal was in the first wave invasions on Guam, Peleliu, Anguar, and Iwo Jima, and he was known for being in the midst of battle right alongside fighting soldiers.
	www.nppa.org /news_and_events/news/2006/08/rosenthal.html (1538 words)

	Joe Rosenthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joe Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
		Rosenthal briefly contemplated attempting to photograph both flags, but decided against it, so he focused his attention on the group of Marines preparing to raise the second flag.
		Rosenthal piled stones and a sandbag so he had something on which to stand, as he was only 5 feet and 5 inches (1.65 m) tall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Rosenthal (843 words)

	Fifty Years Later, Iwo Jima Photographer Fights His Own Battle
		Rosenthal is 83 now, nearly blind, a pudgy man with a dapper white mustache and a horseshoe of white hair curving around the back of a largely bald head.
		Rosenthal hurried back to the command ship, where he wrote captions for all the pictures he had sent that day, and shipped the film off to the military press center in Guam.
		Rosenthal, who was to become close friends with Lowery in the years after Iwo Jima, rejects this explanation.
	www.ap.org /pages/about/pulitzer/rosenthal.html (2350 words)

	Joe Rosenthal
		Rosenthal was at Iwo Jima and took some very dramatic pictures of the invasion.
		Rosenthal was later accused of staging the photograph.
		Rosenthal never claimed this was the original moment of combat, but the picture itself was neither posed nor staged.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAProsenthal.htm (1323 words)

	Joe Rosenthal's iconic Iwo Jima photograph remembered in 'Flags of Our Fathers' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rosenthal won the Pulitzer Prize for his image, and left AP later in 1945 to join the San Francisco Chronicle, where he worked as a photographer for 35 years before retiring.
		Rosenthal was forever modest about his accomplishment, not unlike the three troops cast as national heroes for erecting the flag.
		Rosenthal also took a photo of a group of Marines standing around the flag once it was up.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/entertainment/061019/e101930.html (1055 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Joe Rosenthal dies at 94; war photo still stirs emotions
		JOE ROSENTHAL / AP troops are shown raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945, in this World War II photograph that won a Pulitzer Prize for Joe Rosenthal.
		The death of Joe Rosenthal, the man who took it, was an occasion to bring it out for a rare examination.
		Rosenthal's iconic photo became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003216275_rosenthal22.html (523 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Iwo Jima -- Old Glory goes up on Mt. Suribachi a.k.a. [Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima]
		Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer, took the picture of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945 after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history.
		Rosenthal heard that the Marines were going to raise the flag at the top of the mountain, and hurried up the hill, missing the first flag raising, but arriving in time to snap the second.
		Joe Rosenthal was an Associated Press photographer assigned to the Pacific theater during World War II.
	www.georgeglazer.com /archives/prints/military/rosiwojima.html (418 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Photojournalist Joe Rosenthal dies at age 94
		Rosenthal, who took the iconic photograph on Feb. 23, 1945, while working for The Associated Press, died Sunday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in suburban Novato, Calif., said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.
		Rosenthal preferred in his role as a combat photographer to chronicle the experiences of soldiers on the front lines and liked to call himself "a guy who was up in the big leagues for a cup of coffee at one time."
		Rosenthal left the AP in 1945 to join the San Francisco Chronicle, where he worked as a photographer for 35 years before retiring.
	www.newsobserver.com /110/story/477683.html (406 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Pulitzer Prize Winner Joe Rosenthal Dies
		Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.
		Rosenthal's famous picture kept him busy for years, and he continued to get requests for prints decades after the shutter clicked.
		Rosenthal was born in 1911 in Washington, D.C. He took up photography as a hobby.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/aug/21/082101060.html (1119 words)

	Debbie Schlussel
		The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Rosenthal was ironically rejected for U.S. military service because of poor eyesight, according to The New York Times.
		An AP profile of Rosenthal notes that the shot he took was of the second raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi, that day.
		Unfortunately, as we noted last year, Clint Eastwood is setting out to destroy the legend of Joe Rosenthal's photo and the men in it, by depicting the Battle at Iwo Jima--America's bloodiest battle with 6,800 U.S. soldiers killed--in two anti-American films.
	www.debbieschlussel.com /archives/2006/08/joe_rosenthal_i.html (749 words)

	altpick*com :: Pulitzer Prize winner, Joe Rosenthal, Dies at 94
		First time I saw Joe he was wearing a fl beret and looking mighty jaunty, despite the cane and a body worn down by an already impressive number of years.
		Joe's photo, by all accounts, gave Americans, and allies around the globe, a sense of hope that the end of the war might actually be near.
		Joe Rosenthal died on Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 94.
	altpick.com /news.php?id=1834 (515 words)

	Power Line: Joe Rosenthal, RIP
		Rosenthal is the man who took the immortal photograph of the Marines planting the flag on Mount Suribarchi, Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945, following the costliest fight in Marine Corps history.
		Rosenthal himself, as the story reports, lived with whispers that he'd posed the flagraising.
		Joe Rosenthal, as his daughter says in the story, was "a good and honest man." His word was enough to quiet all but the most incorrigible doubters.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/015062.php (775 words)

	Joe Rosenthal, 1911-2006 - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com
		His name was Joe, and after he died, his daughter said "he was a good and honest man...
		His full name was Joe Rosenthal, and if you didn't know his name, you knew his work.
		And remember this: if there hadn't been a Joe Rosenthal, there's a chance that American school children would know something about a pitched battle for a volcanic island in the Pacific, but that battle wouldn't have a name — and the struggle to capture it wouldn't have a face the way it does today.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14457191 (557 words)

	A Flag for Rosenthal - by David Friend - The Digital Journalist
		But not a word of the book would exist were it not for the vision and talent of one man: Joe Rosenthal, the Associated Press photographer who made the picture.
		On a couple of occasions, I've huddled with Joe on a crisp fall afternoon at the annual gathering of photojournalism's legends--and young aspirants--at the Eddie Adams Workshop in rural Liberty, New York.
		As I recall, Joe always had a gleam in his eye, and a shy grin which he would hide beneath his clipped, gray moustache.
	www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0101/friend.htm (984 words)

	USS Iwo Jima Sailors Remember Joe Rosenthal
		Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag-raising atop Mt. Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945 became the most famous image of World War II — an instantly recognizable symbol of the sacrifices made by American service members during the Pacific campaign.
		Rosenthal’s image, later immortalized by sculptor Felix DeWeldon as the U.S Marine Corps Memorial in Washington D.C., also serves as the official logo of LHD 7.
		It was then that Rosenthal noticed a Marine named Rene Gagnon scurrying up the cliffs with a larger flag tucked under his arm.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,111635,00.html (613 words)

	Famed WWII photographer dies - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com
		AP photographer Joe Rosenthal, left, takes a break from work in March 1945, with Bob Campbell, a Marine from San Francisco, in front of a large Japanese gun knocked out by Marines at the base of Mt. Suribachi.
		Rosenthal scaled the mountain to take the picture of the U.S. flag being raised there.
		Joe Rosenthal / AP Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14446355 (889 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Joe Rosenthal, AP photographer who captured Iwo Jima flag-raising in iconic ...
		Joe Rosenthal, AP photographer who captured Iwo Jima flag-raising in iconic shot, dies at 94
		SAN FRANCISCO – Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday.
		Rosenthal's iconic photo, shot on Feb. 23, 1945, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20060821-0704-obit-rosenthal.html (1171 words)

	Newseum War Stories: Joe Rosenthal
		On Feb. 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.
		He recalled, "I could only hope that it turned out the way that I looked at it through the finder." During World War II, Rosenthal also covered the invasions of New Guinea and Guam.
		Joe Rosenthal died on August 20, 2006 at the age of 94.
	www.newseum.org /warstories/interviews/mov/journalists/bio.asp?ID=32 (78 words)

	joe rosenthal 1912-2006 « un labeled
		Joe is, was the first to also mention that it was the second flag raising, so that one large enough to be seen anywhere on the island.
		The source of my information, Joe Rosenthal, at a family reunion in 1999, while talking to him about his photos and those of my father, another War Correspondent.
		Joe was very adimant that he was just in the right spot at the right time, but he was a great news phtographer, as the quality of the photo exemplifies.
	unlabeled.wordpress.com /2006/08/22/joe-rosenthal-1912-2006 (629 words)

	News photographer Joe Rosenthal dies
		Joe Rosenthal, the news photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for a shot of U.S. Marines raising a flag at Iwo Jima, has died at the age of 94.
		Rosenthal, born Oct. 9, 1911, in Washington, was found dead Sunday morning in his bed at his home in an assisted living center in Novato, Calif., The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
		In 1945, the Pulitzer Committee described the fl and white Iwo Jima photo he took while a 33-year-old Associated Press photographer as a frozen flash of history, the newspaper said.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Entertainment/20060821/427920.html (170 words)

	My Way News - Pulitzer Prize Winner Joe Rosenthal Dies
		SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday.
		The photo was listed in 1999 at No. 68 on a New York University survey of 100 examples of the best journalism of the century.
		He recalled that days later, when a colleague congratulated him on the picture, he thought he meant another, posed shot he had taken later that day, of Marines waving and cheering at the base of the flag.
	apnews.myway.com /article/20060821/D8JKOGL80.html (1201 words)

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