J. Brooks Press Collection

Notre Dame, París

Map of Paris in 1630

With no hope of escape.

George Clooney by Ferdinando Scianna, 2004

Jackie and JFK in the Photobooth

“And Death Shall Have No Dominion”: A Tribute to President John F. Kennedy at Levees Not War. Photograph of John F. Kennedy, 1952, by Philippe Halsman.

Alan Pakula’s film version of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s 1974 account of the Watergate scandal, All the President’s Men, premiered in Washington, DC on 4 April 1976.

Robert Redford had bought the rights for a film version while Woodward and Bernstein were publishing articles in The Washington Post (and had not started work on the book). Redford also hired William Goldman to write the screenplay, and it was Goldman’s script that allowed the film to be financed.

Since film crews could not shoot at the offices of the newspaper, a precise reconstruction of the offices were built on 2 soundstages in Burbank.

The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Jane Alexander) and Best Editing (Robert Wolfe). It received 4 Oscars: Best Support Actor (Jason Robards), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction (George Gaines and George Jenkins), and Best Sound (Dick Alexander, Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi, and James Webb).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (30 January 1882 – 12 April 1945)