1. William Franklin McMahon was an American artist-reporter.
28 Facts About Franklin McMahon
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Franklin McMahon spent several months in a German prison camp.
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The books, although sometimes labelled as "illustrated" by Franklin McMahon, had the same kind of ["on site"] drawings as those from the courtroom, the political arena, and all his other spheres of activity.
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Franklin McMahon began reporting from the courtroom in 1955, after some of his very early work came to the attention of Life magazine's editors.
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Franklin McMahon was in attendance for King's "I Have a Dream" speech during the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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Franklin McMahon covered the two 1964 mistrials of the murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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About that time, Franklin McMahon was returning from Cape Kennedy, Florida, after covering one of the US crewed space launches.
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Franklin McMahon covered King in Chicago in 1966, the United Farm Workers protest in 1968, and the 1968 Chicago riots following King's death.
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The trial lasted five months, with Franklin McMahon producing almost 500 courtroom drawings.
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In 1971, Marv Gold produced and directed the film 69 CR 180, an artist's report by Franklin McMahon featuring his courtroom drawings of the 1969 trial.
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The documentary animation was made, animated and narrated by Franklin McMahon, and edited by Ron Clasky.
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Franklin McMahon drew Democratic presidential candidate Governor Adlai Stevenson II at his Libertyville, IL home.
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One of Franklin McMahon's drawings of Stevenson hangs in that home, which is a state historical site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Franklin McMahon covered every Democratic and Republican campaign from 1960 through 2008, including attending a vast majority of the conventions, Franklin McMahon made first-person drawings of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debates and later of Kennedy's funeral.
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Franklin McMahon's take on Nixon's 1974 resignation showed the disgraced ex-president escaping in a helicopter.
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Franklin McMahon was in Rome on October 11,1962, for Opening Day of the Second Vatican Council, and went on to chronicle that major event through 1965.
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Franklin McMahon's film The World of Vatican II covers the opening and closing of Vatican II; and is a literal "travelogue in drawings" of many countries where Catholicism was facing new challenges at that time; and how and by whom they were being met.
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Franklin McMahon followed Papal journeys, Council activations, and ministries in the Church world through the 1970s and 1980s.
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Franklin McMahon accompanied conductor Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their first European tour in 1971.
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Franklin McMahon worked for Sports Illustrated Magazine on assignments ranging from the 1959 American League champion baseball team Chicago White Sox and Goose Hunting in Cairo, IL to the Acapulco Yacht Race in Mexico.
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Franklin McMahon had been heard to say that his work for Continental put several of his children through college.
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Franklin McMahon illustrated an essay on Richard Nixon's White House for World Book Encyclopedia and early in his career, illustrated a number of books for textbook publisher Scott Foresman and Company, including one on the Illinois Constitution, for which he traveled around the state.
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Franklin McMahon's work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the National Air and Space Museum, The University of Chicago, The Borg-Warner Corporation, Time Inc.
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Many of Franklin McMahon's works are represented in the Corbis Collection.
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Franklin McMahon won the Renaissance Prize of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Franklin McMahon received the Minority Economic Resources Corporation's Martin Luther King Jr.
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Franklin McMahon was a part of the guiding faculty of the Famous Artists School and served as a guest instructor at Syracuse University, Rhode Island School of Design and The Smithsonian Institution.
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The "digital age" equivalent is known as the Ken Burns Effect, but Franklin McMahon's films were made decades before Burns' work, and the effect is somewhat different.