On JFK's Texas Trip & Covered The JFK Assassination
According to the 1940 Census, Theodore Anthony "Ted" Rozumalski, Jr. was the son of Theodore Anthony Rozumalski, Sr., from Wisconsin, and Stella Nabrzyski, from Poland. , his father was a "tavern owner" and his mother a housewife. He was born and grew up in Milwaukee where he graduated from Marquette University High School in 1949, and Marquette University in Journalism before embarking on an extraordinary and prolific career as a photojournalist. It's estimated his son has 100,000 photos in his archive and maintains a website for his work. Tragically Ted died of cancer in Milwaukee at only 59.
He became a renowned, nationally award-winning photographer both for major newspapers and as a freelance photographer for Time-Life, Newsweek, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Business Week, covering key moments in our nation's history: the Civil Rights movement, the Beatles, the space race, the '64 Democratic and Republican Conventions and the JFK Assassination in Dallas among other events.
Even as a youngster he was interested in photography, and at 17 one of his photos of a girl on a racing horse, won 2nd place in a Wisconsin photo contest. His career began in 1956 at The Milwaukee Journal. He won more than 50 Wisconsin Press Photographers' and National Press Photographers' Pictures of the Year Awards. He won the "National Press Photographer of the Year" award in 1964 and 1965, the only one to ever win twice.
In 1962 he joined The Houston Chronicle, which assigned him to its White House staff in 1963. It was during this time that he covered the Kennedy assassination and ensuing events that long and tragic weekend.
After leaving the Chronicle he was the Midwest photographer for the Black Star photo agency out of NYC and worked around the world for them before returning to Milwaukee to work for the Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1976 he left the Sentinel and started his own freelance photography business in Milwaukee and worked with several other photographers.
The Assassination of President Kennedy
In November 1963, he was covering President Kennedy's Texas campaign trip to Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas, as a photographer for the Houston Chronicle. The morning of the assassination he was in Fort Worth where he took at least 2 photos in front of the Texas Hotel of JFK on the stage at the podium and shaking hands with the crowd. Additionally, Rozumalski uniquely used a 180 degree panorama lens to take a famous panorama photo of JFK and his entourage as they were exiting Hotel Texas and were proceeding toward the stage & podium to address the crowd.
In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or ear-witness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters, including NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, at the insistence of McNeil (Dudman b. 1918, Centerville, IA - d. 2017, Blue Hill ME, age 99; not on findagrave, interment unknown); however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. Consequently, Rozumalski and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however, their bus did go on Parkland Hospital where, certainly, he would have taken photos of the chaos. (There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff, DNC members and others.)
At sometime that afternoon he must've gotten a ride or taken a taxi back to Dealey Plaza where he is seen in footage shot in front of the Texas School Book Depository taking photos of 3 TSBD employees (Danny Arce, Bonnie Ray Williams, and Bill Shelley) being put in a DPD squadcar for transport to the DPD for questioning (see photo). I originally ID'd him as as was Houston Chronicle photorgrapher, Arthur Uhlman, who also hailed from the Milwaukee Sentinal and had moved to Houston 2 years prior to Ted, but was then corrected that it was his colleague, Ted Rozulmalski, by Rozulmalski's son, Steve. The problem is we don't have that photo (or any others) we saw Rozumalski taking in Dealey Plaza!
Rozumalski remained in Dallas that weekend along with several other Houston Chronicle reporters who were also on Press Bus No. 2 with him: Mary Rice Brogan (Find A Grave Memorial# 38846504), a veteran reporter for the Austin Bureau, Bo Byers (Find A Grave Memorial# 66883596), Austin Bureau Chief; and Arthur Uhlmann (Find A Grave Memorial# 27333595), another award-winning Houston Chronicle Photographer who hailed from Milwaukee, and had moved to Houston to work at the Chronicle two years prior to Ted. They covered the Midnight Press Conference Saturday night and the the murder of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by Ruby on Sunday. Rozumalski said he took photographs of Oswald at the Dallas Police Department, and no doubt many others.
I have found one photo (there are likely more) showing he also covered JFK's Texas trip on its stop in San Antonio on 11/21/63: http://archive.poyi.org/items/show/5017
He likely also covered their stop in Houston just prior to that.
Website of Ted's photography maintained by his son can be seen here: http://www.rozumalskiphotography.com/
According to the 1940 Census, Theodore Anthony "Ted" Rozumalski, Jr. was the son of Theodore Anthony Rozumalski, Sr., from Wisconsin, and Stella Nabrzyski, from Poland. , his father was a "tavern owner" and his mother a housewife. He was born and grew up in Milwaukee where he graduated from Marquette University High School in 1949, and Marquette University in Journalism before embarking on an extraordinary and prolific career as a photojournalist. It's estimated his son has 100,000 photos in his archive and maintains a website for his work. Tragically Ted died of cancer in Milwaukee at only 59.
He became a renowned, nationally award-winning photographer both for major newspapers and as a freelance photographer for Time-Life, Newsweek, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Business Week, covering key moments in our nation's history: the Civil Rights movement, the Beatles, the space race, the '64 Democratic and Republican Conventions and the JFK Assassination in Dallas among other events.
Even as a youngster he was interested in photography, and at 17 one of his photos of a girl on a racing horse, won 2nd place in a Wisconsin photo contest. His career began in 1956 at The Milwaukee Journal. He won more than 50 Wisconsin Press Photographers' and National Press Photographers' Pictures of the Year Awards. He won the "National Press Photographer of the Year" award in 1964 and 1965, the only one to ever win twice.
In 1962 he joined The Houston Chronicle, which assigned him to its White House staff in 1963. It was during this time that he covered the Kennedy assassination and ensuing events that long and tragic weekend.
After leaving the Chronicle he was the Midwest photographer for the Black Star photo agency out of NYC and worked around the world for them before returning to Milwaukee to work for the Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1976 he left the Sentinel and started his own freelance photography business in Milwaukee and worked with several other photographers.
The Assassination of President Kennedy
In November 1963, he was covering President Kennedy's Texas campaign trip to Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas, as a photographer for the Houston Chronicle. The morning of the assassination he was in Fort Worth where he took at least 2 photos in front of the Texas Hotel of JFK on the stage at the podium and shaking hands with the crowd. Additionally, Rozumalski uniquely used a 180 degree panorama lens to take a famous panorama photo of JFK and his entourage as they were exiting Hotel Texas and were proceeding toward the stage & podium to address the crowd.
In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or ear-witness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters, including NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, at the insistence of McNeil (Dudman b. 1918, Centerville, IA - d. 2017, Blue Hill ME, age 99; not on findagrave, interment unknown); however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. Consequently, Rozumalski and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however, their bus did go on Parkland Hospital where, certainly, he would have taken photos of the chaos. (There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff, DNC members and others.)
At sometime that afternoon he must've gotten a ride or taken a taxi back to Dealey Plaza where he is seen in footage shot in front of the Texas School Book Depository taking photos of 3 TSBD employees (Danny Arce, Bonnie Ray Williams, and Bill Shelley) being put in a DPD squadcar for transport to the DPD for questioning (see photo). I originally ID'd him as as was Houston Chronicle photorgrapher, Arthur Uhlman, who also hailed from the Milwaukee Sentinal and had moved to Houston 2 years prior to Ted, but was then corrected that it was his colleague, Ted Rozulmalski, by Rozulmalski's son, Steve. The problem is we don't have that photo (or any others) we saw Rozumalski taking in Dealey Plaza!
Rozumalski remained in Dallas that weekend along with several other Houston Chronicle reporters who were also on Press Bus No. 2 with him: Mary Rice Brogan (Find A Grave Memorial# 38846504), a veteran reporter for the Austin Bureau, Bo Byers (Find A Grave Memorial# 66883596), Austin Bureau Chief; and Arthur Uhlmann (Find A Grave Memorial# 27333595), another award-winning Houston Chronicle Photographer who hailed from Milwaukee, and had moved to Houston to work at the Chronicle two years prior to Ted. They covered the Midnight Press Conference Saturday night and the the murder of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by Ruby on Sunday. Rozumalski said he took photographs of Oswald at the Dallas Police Department, and no doubt many others.
I have found one photo (there are likely more) showing he also covered JFK's Texas trip on its stop in San Antonio on 11/21/63: http://archive.poyi.org/items/show/5017
He likely also covered their stop in Houston just prior to that.
Website of Ted's photography maintained by his son can be seen here: http://www.rozumalskiphotography.com/
On JFK's Texas Trip & Covered The JFK Assassination
According to the 1940 Census, Theodore Anthony "Ted" Rozumalski, Jr. was the son of Theodore Anthony Rozumalski, Sr., from Wisconsin, and Stella Nabrzyski, from Poland. , his father was a "tavern owner" and his mother a housewife. He was born and grew up in Milwaukee where he graduated from Marquette University High School in 1949, and Marquette University in Journalism before embarking on an extraordinary and prolific career as a photojournalist. It's estimated his son has 100,000 photos in his archive and maintains a website for his work. Tragically Ted died of cancer in Milwaukee at only 59.
He became a renowned, nationally award-winning photographer both for major newspapers and as a freelance photographer for Time-Life, Newsweek, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Business Week, covering key moments in our nation's history: the Civil Rights movement, the Beatles, the space race, the '64 Democratic and Republican Conventions and the JFK Assassination in Dallas among other events.
Even as a youngster he was interested in photography, and at 17 one of his photos of a girl on a racing horse, won 2nd place in a Wisconsin photo contest. His career began in 1956 at The Milwaukee Journal. He won more than 50 Wisconsin Press Photographers' and National Press Photographers' Pictures of the Year Awards. He won the "National Press Photographer of the Year" award in 1964 and 1965, the only one to ever win twice.
In 1962 he joined The Houston Chronicle, which assigned him to its White House staff in 1963. It was during this time that he covered the Kennedy assassination and ensuing events that long and tragic weekend.
After leaving the Chronicle he was the Midwest photographer for the Black Star photo agency out of NYC and worked around the world for them before returning to Milwaukee to work for the Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1976 he left the Sentinel and started his own freelance photography business in Milwaukee and worked with several other photographers.
The Assassination of President Kennedy
In November 1963, he was covering President Kennedy's Texas campaign trip to Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas, as a photographer for the Houston Chronicle. The morning of the assassination he was in Fort Worth where he took at least 2 photos in front of the Texas Hotel of JFK on the stage at the podium and shaking hands with the crowd. Additionally, Rozumalski uniquely used a 180 degree panorama lens to take a famous panorama photo of JFK and his entourage as they were exiting Hotel Texas and were proceeding toward the stage & podium to address the crowd.
In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or ear-witness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters, including NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, at the insistence of McNeil (Dudman b. 1918, Centerville, IA - d. 2017, Blue Hill ME, age 99; not on findagrave, interment unknown); however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. Consequently, Rozumalski and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however, their bus did go on Parkland Hospital where, certainly, he would have taken photos of the chaos. (There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff, DNC members and others.)
At sometime that afternoon he must've gotten a ride or taken a taxi back to Dealey Plaza where he is seen in footage shot in front of the Texas School Book Depository taking photos of 3 TSBD employees (Danny Arce, Bonnie Ray Williams, and Bill Shelley) being put in a DPD squadcar for transport to the DPD for questioning (see photo). I originally ID'd him as as was Houston Chronicle photorgrapher, Arthur Uhlman, who also hailed from the Milwaukee Sentinal and had moved to Houston 2 years prior to Ted, but was then corrected that it was his colleague, Ted Rozulmalski, by Rozulmalski's son, Steve. The problem is we don't have that photo (or any others) we saw Rozumalski taking in Dealey Plaza!
Rozumalski remained in Dallas that weekend along with several other Houston Chronicle reporters who were also on Press Bus No. 2 with him: Mary Rice Brogan (Find A Grave Memorial# 38846504), a veteran reporter for the Austin Bureau, Bo Byers (Find A Grave Memorial# 66883596), Austin Bureau Chief; and Arthur Uhlmann (Find A Grave Memorial# 27333595), another award-winning Houston Chronicle Photographer who hailed from Milwaukee, and had moved to Houston to work at the Chronicle two years prior to Ted. They covered the Midnight Press Conference Saturday night and the the murder of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by Ruby on Sunday. Rozumalski said he took photographs of Oswald at the Dallas Police Department, and no doubt many others.
I have found one photo (there are likely more) showing he also covered JFK's Texas trip on its stop in San Antonio on 11/21/63: http://archive.poyi.org/items/show/5017
He likely also covered their stop in Houston just prior to that.
Website of Ted's photography maintained by his son can be seen here: http://www.rozumalskiphotography.com/
According to the 1940 Census, Theodore Anthony "Ted" Rozumalski, Jr. was the son of Theodore Anthony Rozumalski, Sr., from Wisconsin, and Stella Nabrzyski, from Poland. , his father was a "tavern owner" and his mother a housewife. He was born and grew up in Milwaukee where he graduated from Marquette University High School in 1949, and Marquette University in Journalism before embarking on an extraordinary and prolific career as a photojournalist. It's estimated his son has 100,000 photos in his archive and maintains a website for his work. Tragically Ted died of cancer in Milwaukee at only 59.
He became a renowned, nationally award-winning photographer both for major newspapers and as a freelance photographer for Time-Life, Newsweek, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Business Week, covering key moments in our nation's history: the Civil Rights movement, the Beatles, the space race, the '64 Democratic and Republican Conventions and the JFK Assassination in Dallas among other events.
Even as a youngster he was interested in photography, and at 17 one of his photos of a girl on a racing horse, won 2nd place in a Wisconsin photo contest. His career began in 1956 at The Milwaukee Journal. He won more than 50 Wisconsin Press Photographers' and National Press Photographers' Pictures of the Year Awards. He won the "National Press Photographer of the Year" award in 1964 and 1965, the only one to ever win twice.
In 1962 he joined The Houston Chronicle, which assigned him to its White House staff in 1963. It was during this time that he covered the Kennedy assassination and ensuing events that long and tragic weekend.
After leaving the Chronicle he was the Midwest photographer for the Black Star photo agency out of NYC and worked around the world for them before returning to Milwaukee to work for the Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1976 he left the Sentinel and started his own freelance photography business in Milwaukee and worked with several other photographers.
The Assassination of President Kennedy
In November 1963, he was covering President Kennedy's Texas campaign trip to Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas, as a photographer for the Houston Chronicle. The morning of the assassination he was in Fort Worth where he took at least 2 photos in front of the Texas Hotel of JFK on the stage at the podium and shaking hands with the crowd. Additionally, Rozumalski uniquely used a 180 degree panorama lens to take a famous panorama photo of JFK and his entourage as they were exiting Hotel Texas and were proceeding toward the stage & podium to address the crowd.
In Dallas he was in the Presidential Motorcade riding in Press Bus No. 2 which was several cars back from the Presidential limo at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy and was an eyewitness and/or ear-witness to the assassination.
Press Bus No.1 stopped in Dealey Plaza to let off several reporters, including NBC's Robert McNeil (later with PBS) and Richard Dudman, the Chief Washington Correspondent with the St. Louis Dispatch, at the insistence of McNeil (Dudman b. 1918, Centerville, IA - d. 2017, Blue Hill ME, age 99; not on findagrave, interment unknown); however, the driver of Press Bus No.2 refused to stop and let anyone off, even though some of the reporters begged him to do so. Consequently, Rozumalski and the others were not able to get out and photograph or investigate the scene of the crime in Dealey Plaza; however, their bus did go on Parkland Hospital where, certainly, he would have taken photos of the chaos. (There was also a 3rd bus in the motorcade, the "Official Party Bus," carrying administration staff, DNC members and others.)
At sometime that afternoon he must've gotten a ride or taken a taxi back to Dealey Plaza where he is seen in footage shot in front of the Texas School Book Depository taking photos of 3 TSBD employees (Danny Arce, Bonnie Ray Williams, and Bill Shelley) being put in a DPD squadcar for transport to the DPD for questioning (see photo). I originally ID'd him as as was Houston Chronicle photorgrapher, Arthur Uhlman, who also hailed from the Milwaukee Sentinal and had moved to Houston 2 years prior to Ted, but was then corrected that it was his colleague, Ted Rozulmalski, by Rozulmalski's son, Steve. The problem is we don't have that photo (or any others) we saw Rozumalski taking in Dealey Plaza!
Rozumalski remained in Dallas that weekend along with several other Houston Chronicle reporters who were also on Press Bus No. 2 with him: Mary Rice Brogan (Find A Grave Memorial# 38846504), a veteran reporter for the Austin Bureau, Bo Byers (Find A Grave Memorial# 66883596), Austin Bureau Chief; and Arthur Uhlmann (Find A Grave Memorial# 27333595), another award-winning Houston Chronicle Photographer who hailed from Milwaukee, and had moved to Houston to work at the Chronicle two years prior to Ted. They covered the Midnight Press Conference Saturday night and the the murder of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by Ruby on Sunday. Rozumalski said he took photographs of Oswald at the Dallas Police Department, and no doubt many others.
I have found one photo (there are likely more) showing he also covered JFK's Texas trip on its stop in San Antonio on 11/21/63: http://archive.poyi.org/items/show/5017
He likely also covered their stop in Houston just prior to that.
Website of Ted's photography maintained by his son can be seen here: http://www.rozumalskiphotography.com/
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