{"id":5354416,"date":"2019-10-14T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354416"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T16:05:26","slug":"hank-walker","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/hank-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da09adb7fc00\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354698 desc=\"Asset ID: 766352. \" caption=\"Hank Walker with his camera. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14155747\/00766352-e1571068666346-806x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Hank Walker with his camera. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Hank Walker with his camera. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politicians were just another kind of celebrity to Hank Walker (1922-1996): &#8220;If you can appeal to that ego, they usually let you do the story.&#8221; During the Mccarthy hearings, when the witch-hunting senator continually flourished papers he claimed held the names of 41 State Department communists,&nbsp; Walker tried to expose the documents with a long lens. \u201cI took a couple of pictures and McCarthy stopped dead.&#8221; The hearing came to a halt as the committee chairman demanded Walker&#8217;s film, but he had switched the rolls. (Later he would find the real pictures of the list unintelligible.) The episode may not have stopped the McCarthy rampage, but it showed the live television audience an ugly glimpse of the man. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget that,&#8221; Walter Cronkite said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5da09ae77fc01\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354699 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051563. \" caption=\"US Marines crouched in landing boat, looking at the bombardment of the beach where they are about to land.(Photo by Hank Walker\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14155923\/Walker_E_IC2-e1571068763328-900x1024.jpg\" alt=\"US Marines crouched in landing boat, looking at the bombardment of the beach where they are about to land. (Photo by Hank Walker\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">US Marines crouched in landing boat, looking at the bombardment of the beach where they are about to land.(Photo by Hank Walker\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354700 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051561. \" caption=\"President Dwight D. Eisenhower crying after his speech at the 82nd Airborne luncheon. (Photo by Hank Walker\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14160028\/Walker_C_IC3-e1571068828960-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"President Dwight D. Eisenhower crying after his speech at the 82nd Airborne luncheon. (Photo by Hank Walker\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">President Dwight D. Eisenhower crying after his speech at the 82nd Airborne luncheon. 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