[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 6, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       WILLIAM V. ``BILL'' MOORE, PHOTOJOURNALIST EXTRAORDINAIRE

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                         HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 6, 1996

  Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate and chronicle the 
28 year career of Mr. William V. ``Bill'' Moore, a photojournalist, who 
was honored on March 3, 1996. He is the first African-American full-
time staff news cameraman on television in the State of California. He 
has been affiliated with KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland, CA, and for the 
past 5 years serving as chief photographer.
  Bill is a native of Oakland and graduated from Oakland Technical High 
School. He attended Laney College and the California College of the 
Arts and Crafts, majoring in photography. Bill was a freelance 
photographer for the Associated Press before joining what was then a 
tiny news staff at KTVU Channel 2.
  Bill's assignments ranged from the San Francisco Police Department 
Press for 5 years to U.S. Presidents since Richard Nixon. In between, 
he covered and recorded on film and tape the events related to the 
assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Mascone and the trial of 
his accused killer, Dan White, the antiwar and civil rights 
demonstrations of the 1970's; the Oakland-Berkeley hills fire storm of 
1991; the 1989 and 1993 earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area and 
Los Angeles as well as the Nicaraguan earthquake in 1988; the O.J. 
Simpson murder trial; the training camps and opening season games of 
the Oakland A's, San Francisco Giants, and the San Francisco 49'ers. 
Bill did films for television on location in Haiti, Italy, and Brazil. 
His skill with the camera is as legendary as his good natured way of 
dealing with his fellow workers.
  He is married to Belva Davis, an established and accomplished TV news 
personality, and has 2 children, Steven and Darolyn. Bill is fondly 
known as Belva's husband. Let the record state that Bill is an all-
around-nice-guy, and an accomplished professional.
  William V. ``Bill'' Moore, photojournalist extraordinaire, and his 
contribution in documenting historic domestic and international news 
are a treasure of human events shaping the development and future of 
our world.

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