Ronald A. Edmonds Edmonds joined the Associated Press in Washington in 1981 and worked there until 2009, when he retired as the AP's Senior White House Photographer. He was one of the early pioneers of the use of digital cameras in news photography, including using an experimental electronic camera to transmit to newspapers around the world the first photos of President George H.W. Bush's inauguration, forty seconds after he put his hand down after being sworn in. In 1981 Edmonds was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in spot news photography for his coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life on March
Chester A. Arthur Home president after Garfield died on September 19, 1881, from wounds incurred in an assassination attempt a few months earlier. Arthur took the oath of office in this house, and retired to it after his term ended in 1885. He died here the following year. The house was later purchased by William Randolph Hearst It has since undergone many changes. Today, the building houses Kalustyan's, a Mediterranean grocery store, on the first two floors, and apartments on the top three. It is the only surviving building in New York City where a president was inaugurated. Chester A. Arthur Home The Chester