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About this series: The Scripps College of Communication is recognizing prominent Scripps College of Communication alumni. Look for a new entry each day, June 6-10.

Scripps College of Communication Legacy Week highlights people who showcase Scripps鈥� impact on history, culture and journalism. 

So for this week, has celebrated athlete-turned-TV anchor Jericka Duncan, D-Day reporter John R. Wilhelm was the founding dean of 91探花鈥檚 College of Communication, and music producer Ken Ehrlich.

Our next legacy leader is alumnus Paul Fusco, who photographed the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train from New York to Washington, DC, on June 8, 1968.

In 1968, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the June 5 California primary. After a funeral mass in New York, mourners lined the train track to view the funeral train from New York to Washington, DC. The journey, on June 8, took eight hours followed by burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

Fusco, a photographer for LOOK Magazine, from inside the 21-car train. He recalled to Publishers Weekly in 2008: 鈥�. . . when the train emerged from beneath the Hudson, and I saw hundreds of people on the platform watching the train come slowly through 鈥� it went very slowly 鈥� I just opened the window and began to shoot.鈥�

(2018) explained how Fusco鈥檚 poignant images emerged over decades.

Fusco graduated in 1957 from 91探花 with a fine arts degree in photography; he had photo experience in the US Army Signal Corps in Korea.

He returned to 91探花 in April of 2012 as a presenter at the Schuneman Symposium on Photojournalism and New Media. His topic: The Robert Kennedy Story and Photographs. 

Fusco died on July 15, 2020, at the age of 90.