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(Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)</p> </div> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <blockquote id="single-block_5d9f9097697c5" class="single-image "> <section> <img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355131 desc="Asset ID: 1270016. " caption="Photographer Bill Eppridge (L) covering Robert Kennedy's campaign. (Photo by Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection)" title="" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Photographer Bill Eppridge (L) covering Robert Kennedy's campaign. (Photo by Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection)" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220742/1270016-e1571177262188-1024x734.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355131 desc="Asset ID: 1270016. " caption="Photographer Bill Eppridge (L) covering Robert Kennedy's campaign. (Photo by Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection)" title="" src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220742/1270016-e1571177262188-1024x734.jpg" alt="Photographer Bill Eppridge (L) covering Robert Kennedy's campaign. (Photo by Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection)" /></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption"></p> <p class="image-caption">Photographer Bill Eppridge (L) covering Robert Kennedy’s campaign. (Photo by Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection)</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bill Eppridge (1938-2013( was adept at celebrities, fresh- and saltwater fishing, the Arctic and many other subjects. He was nearly killed in the Dominican Republic in 1965 after Lyndon Johnson sent Army troops to protect American interests. And for an intensely dramatic LIFE series on young heroin addicts, which served as the basis for the film </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067549/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Panic in Needle Park</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Eppridge and a writer brought to light a world that few people could have imagined. But despite all this, it is one picture he will likely be remembered for. </span></p> <blockquote id="single-block_5d9f909c697c6" class="single-image "> <section> <img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355132 desc="Asset ID: 13051071. " caption="Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation" title="The 60s were defined by three assassinations: President John F. Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther Kind, and Senator Robert Kennedy, who in 1968 was making his own run at president. After winning the California primary and giving a victory speech at L.A.'s Ambassador hotel, RFK was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Seventeen-year-old busboy Juan Romero, who had just shaken Kennedy's hand, registered the shock of a nation." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Senator Robert Kennedy sprawled semiconscious in his own blood on floor after being shot in the brain and neck by Sirhan Sirhan while a busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort him. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220645/RFK_Shot_New_IC3-e1571177205834-680x1024.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355132 desc="Asset ID: 13051071. " caption="Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation" title="The 60s were defined by three assassinations: President John F. Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther Kind, and Senator Robert Kennedy, who in 1968 was making his own run at president. After winning the California primary and giving a victory speech at L.A.'s Ambassador hotel, RFK was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Seventeen-year-old busboy Juan Romero, who had just shaken Kennedy's hand, registered the shock of a nation." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220645/RFK_Shot_New_IC3-e1571177205834-680x1024.jpg" alt="Senator Robert Kennedy sprawled semiconscious in his own blood on floor after being shot in the brain and neck by Sirhan Sirhan while a busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort him. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" /></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">The 60s were defined by three assassinations: President John F. Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther Kind, and Senator Robert Kennedy, who in 1968 was making his own run at president. After winning the California primary and giving a victory speech at L.A.’s Ambassador hotel, RFK was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Seventeen-year-old busboy Juan Romero, who had just shaken Kennedy’s hand, registered the shock of a nation.</p> <p class="image-caption">Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1968, Eppridge was in the Los Angeles hotel where Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan. Everyone’s attention was on the assailant “There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus … then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.”</span></p> <blockquote id="double-block_5d9f90b9697c8" class="double-image aligncenter"> <section> <img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355133 desc="Asset ID: 13051068. " caption="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" title="" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220535/Overdose_4_IC2-e1571177135474.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355133 desc="Asset ID: 13051068. " caption="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" title="" src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220535/Overdose_4_IC2-e1571177135474.jpg" alt="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" /></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption"></p> <p class="image-caption">Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)</p> </div> </section> <section> <img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355134 desc="Asset ID: 13051065. " caption="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" title="" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220552/Overdose_3_IC2-e1571177152964-678x1024.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355134 desc="Asset ID: 13051065. " caption="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" title="" src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220552/Overdose_3_IC2-e1571177152964-678x1024.jpg" alt="Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" /></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption"></p> <p class="image-caption">Karen, a heroin addict, trying to save the life of a fellow addict who has overdosed. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For this story, Eppridge spent two months living with a pair of heroin addicts. In order to persuade the couple to let him and a writer completely invade their world, he told them it was their chance to make a contribution to society. The couple thought it over and finally replied, “O.K. This gives us a chance to do something good.” Eppridge became so ingrained in the sordid, desperate life of the heroin addict that, at one point, narcotics detectives, convinced that he had stolen his cameras and LIFE credentials, were about to haul him off to jail. The article’s writer came by and finally straightened things out.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</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&keywords=the+great+life+photographers&qid=1570115481&s=gateway&sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Great LIFE Photographers</span></a></p> <blockquote id="single-block_5da642086e701" class="single-image "> <section> <img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355135 desc="Asset ID: 13051067. " caption="Motorcyclists racing 75 miles cross country through Mojave Desert. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" title="" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Motorcyclists racing 75 miles cross country through Mojave Desert. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220508/EPP_C_IC3-e1571177108278-1024x703.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" data="block-image" data-id=5355135 desc="Asset ID: 13051067. " caption="Motorcyclists racing 75 miles cross country through Mojave Desert. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" title="" src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/15220508/EPP_C_IC3-e1571177108278-1024x703.jpg" alt="Motorcyclists racing 75 miles cross country through Mojave Desert. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)" /></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption"></p> <p class="image-caption">Motorcyclists racing 75 miles cross country through Mojave Desert. (Photo by Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <nav id="nav-below" class="post-navigation"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Post navigation</span> </nav> </footer> </div> </article><div class='article-card-container'> <h4>More Like This</h4> <div class='article-card'> <a href=https://www.life.com/photographer/thomas-mcavoy/><img width="768" height="523" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20768%20523'%3E%3C/svg%3E" class="attachment-840x600 size-840x600 wp-post-image" alt="President Franklin D. Roosevelt listening to speeches. 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