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About this project | You can't have my job, but I'll tell you a story
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You can't have my job, but I'll tell you a story. My three decades of photojournalism in one hell of a news town. Two years. That’s what I’d give it. It was January, 1981, I had graduated from the journalism program at Cal State University, Northridge a few months earlier and landed a job with The Bakersfield Californian. But really, Bakersfield? But none of that compared to the news. Oh, my God, the news! This was one hell of a news town! Poisoned watermelons and killer bees. Murders and trials so s...