10 Facts About Hal Roth

Hal Roth was an aviator during World War II and the Korean War.

Hal Roth graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Journalism, and became a free-lance writer and photographer.

In 1959, Roth met Margaret Hale-White from Oxford, England who was visiting a friend in San Francisco, California.

Hal Roth was a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers and worked from a base in Sausalito, California, producing imagery of life in the surrounding area of California during the late 1950s and into the late 1960s.

Hal Roth was engaged in photographic study of human life as represented by his "Time and Place" album and his Chinatown exhibit.

Hal Roth completed the race 4th in his class of 14, taking 171 days.

Hal Roth recorded reminisces and continued to draft manuscripts throughout his life.

Hal Roth worked on these manuscripts during his later years and during his two and half year battle with lung cancer.

Hal Roth died October 18,2008, while living in Maryland with his wife, Margaret, who survives him.

In 1971 Hal Roth was awarded the Blue Water Medal of the Cruising Club of America in recognition of a cruise of 18,538-nautical-mile around the Pacific Basin, with his wife as crew aboard their 35-foot sloop, Whisper.