Photojournalist Stan Stearns Dies at 76
Posted: 3/5/2012 | By: Adam Bernstein | The Washington Post
“One exposure on a roll of 36 exposures,” Stan Stearns marveled decades
later. The young news photographer, in one instinctive click, captured
one of the most poignant and reproduced images of the past half-century:
little John F. Kennedy Jr., grief-stricken, saluting his father’s coffin as it rolled by on a caisson.
Mr. Stearns died of cancer March 2 at the Mandrin care facility in Harwood, said his niece, Karla Bowles. He was 76 and had spent the past four decades running a photography studio in his native Annapolis.
Mr. Stearns died of cancer March 2 at the Mandrin care facility in Harwood, said his niece, Karla Bowles. He was 76 and had spent the past four decades running a photography studio in his native Annapolis.