William beebe accomplishments of president
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William Beebe
William Beebe at age 18 at his
home in East Orange, New Jersey
Charles William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He was born on July 29, 1877 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of newspaper executive Charles Beebe. His family soon moved to East Orange, New Jersey where he attended high school. His family was interested in nature, and he had a fascination with the natural world. He enjoyed attending lectures at the newly opened American Museum of Natural History in New York. He had an interest in collecting animals, and he trained himself in taxidermy in order to preserve them. He often traded with other collectors to add to his growing collection. His friends referred to him simply as William Beebe and this is how he would be known from this point forward. He published his first article while he was still in high school. It was a description of a bird known as a Brown Creeper. The article appe
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William Beebe
William Beebe (1877-1962) was a naturalist, ocean ographer, ornithologist, and an executive of the New York Zoological Society. With Otis Barton, he was the first to use the bathysphere, a deep-sea diving device, and set a dive record in 1934 that was not broken until 1949. Beebe wrote over 800 articles and 24 books on natural history.
Beebe was the son of Charles Beebe, a paper company executive, and Henrietta Marie Younglove. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 1877. When Beebe was a small child, his family moved to East Orange, New Jersey, where he experienced a happy childhood and was able to expand his innate interest in the outdoors. He was deeply interested in birds, and his first publication was a letter to the editor of Harper's Young People in 1895. His parents, particularly his mother, encouraged his interest in natural history.
New York Zoological Society
Beebe took extra science classes at East Orange High School and entered Columbia U
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L.A. Times photographer Bill Beebe, who waded into ocean to snap iconic JFK image, dies at 94
It was a hot Sunday in August 1962 when photographer Bill Beebe got a tip from volleyball players on a Santa Monica beach.
The president of the United States had ditched the Secret Service and was heading into the surf.
A staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, Beebe raced to the ocean’s edge a mile north of the pier, where he funnen John F. Kennedy coming out of the vatten, as frantic Secret Service members struggled to contain gleeful and stunned admirers, who rushed to touch and talk with the president.
Beebe splashed into the water with his high-end German camera, a Rolleiflex, and a strobe with a 510-volt battery, to snap one of the most iconic shots of the Kennedy presidency.
The photo ran worldwide and provided a glimpse of an unusually accessible president somewhat cavalier about his safety, 15 months before he would be assassinated in an open limo bygd a sniper in Dallas.
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