(12 Dec 2024)
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San Francisco – 12 December 2024
1. Officials unveil Joe Rosenthal Way street sign
2. Close-up of street sign
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Peskin, San Francisco supervisor:
"We’re in the city and county of San Francisco is going to give the acknowledgment that the late, great Joe Rosenthal has long deserved."
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Iwo Jima, Japan – 23 February 1945
4. U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi (photo by Joe Rosenthal)
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Iwo Jima, Japan – 7 March 1945
5. In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe Rosenthal looks over the scene at Iwo Jima, Japan
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San Francisco – 25 March 2024
6. AP staff photographer Joe Rosenthal is pictured in San Francisco prior to this departure for Honolulu for pool assignment with the Pacific fleet
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San Francisco -12 December 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Peskin, San Francisco supervisor:
"So Joe Rosenthal is an under-celebrated under-acknowledged great San Franciscan who is internationally renowned for his iconic photograph of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War Two, but is not acknowledged for his incredible work as a photographer, as a documentarian of everyday life in San Francisco, where he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for over a third of a century, capturing ordinary life, but in an extraordinary way, turning the mundane into something to celebrate."
8. Various of city worker cleaning street sign
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Peskin, San Francisco supervisor:
"Here we are in an area that is a crossroads of visitors and locals, Marine veterans. And I hope that they look up at that. Joe Rosenthal way sign, Google his name and see those extraordinary photographs."
10. City worker preparing to cover Rosenthal street sign
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Graves, chapter historian, US Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association:
"80 years ago, or very nearly so, Joe’s photo changed the United States and frankly helped win the Second World War when things were not looking wonderful. So as a photographer, I’ve always honored and respected Joe for that single photo that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. But I’ve grown over the years to appreciate also his role as a San Francisco newspaper photographer."
12. Bulldogs wearing patriotic gear
13. People on corner under new Rosenthal street sign
STORYLINE:
A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima — had a block in downtown San Francisco named for him Thursday.
Joe Rosenthal, who died in 2006 at age 94, was working for The Associated Press in 1945 when he took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
After the war, he went to work as a staff photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and for 35 years until his retirement in 1981, he captured moments of city life both extraordinary and routine.
Rosenthal photographed famous people for the paper, including a young Willie Mays getting his hat fitted as a San Francisco Giant in 1957, and regular people, including children making a joyous dash for freedom on the last day of school in 1965.
The 600 block of Sutter Street, near downtown’s Union Square, became Joe Rosenthal Way after a short ceremony Thursday morning. The Marines Memorial Club, which sits on the block, welcomed the street’s new name.
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