1989 Photo Contest, People in the News, 3rd prize
Photographer

Kenneth Jarecke

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01 January, 1988

Jesse Jackson attends a basketball game at Iowa University before boarding the plane again on his whistle-stop tour of the country during his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The black leader's enthusiastic, inspired speeches won him over seven milllion votes, but not enough to beat Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.

About the photographer

Kenneth Jarecke

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