Library Friday Morning Group"65Years with theAP":9/30 10:30AM

Martin Lederhandler, a retired Associated Press (AP) photographer, will give a slide-talk entitled “Sixty-five years with the Associated Press at the September 30th meeting of the Teaneck Library Friday Morning Group at 10:30 AM

Mr. Lederhandler has been shooting historical events and legendary figures for most of the 20th century and in doing so has become a legend himself.. Winston Churchill, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Haile Selassie, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, The Rosenbergs, mayors from Fiorello LaGuardia to Rudy Giuliani and every president from Herbert Hoover (retired) to Bill Clinton are just a sampling of people captured by Lederhandler's lens and his photographs have made front page news around the world.

Marty and his older brother, Harry, got into cameras as a teen-age hobby during the depression. He joined AP full-time in 1936 - his career was launched as he strolled across the George Washington Bridge and shot an award winning photograph of the cables stretching across the Hudson, for which he received $3.00. Lederhandler's career paralleled the march of technology from heavy, cumbersome Speed Graphics to high-speed film and motor-driven 35-mm cameras - and recently, to digital cameras.

Drafted by the Army in 1940, Lederhandler landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division on June 6th, 1944. From his haunting images of the D-Day invasion to his photographs of the attack on the World Trade Center which made the cover of New York magazine and the cover of “September 11, 2001,” a best-selling book published by the magazine, Lederhandler has been an eyewitness to history.

The public is welcome to attend this free program to be held in the library auditorium and to the coffee and socializing session that precedes it at 10:00 AM. The library is located at 840 Teaneck Road at the corner of Cedar Lane in Teaneck. For more information, call the Library at 201-837-4171 or visit http://www.Teaneck.org for more about this and other upcoming events, programs and services offered by the Teaneck Public Library.

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