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What We Learned This Week: Al Rockoff Photographed the Ravages of War. Now He Is Battling for His Images.

As a US Army photographer in Vietnam and later a freelancer in Cambodia, Al Rockoff documented the ravages of war in Southeast Asia. On April 17, 1975, he was one of the few journalists to record the end of Cambodia's civil war as the insurgent Khmer Rouge marched victoriously into the nation's capital, Phnom Penh. In the 1984 film "The Killing Fields," which depicted the savagery of the Khmer Rouge takeover, Rockoff was portrayed by the actor John Malkovich. For decades, thousands of Rockoff's unpublished images from that era sat in Florida storage he now calls home. But they were removed more than a year ago under circumstances that have now become the source of a bitter dispute.

Giving Thanks 2025

  Born Anna Mary Robertson in 1860, this  artist left home at a young age to work as a hired girl at a neighboring farm.Marrying at age 27, she eventually gave birth to 10 children (5 of whom survived past infancy). Moses disliked spending time knitting and sewing, but she began entertaining herself by making needlework pictures and quilts portraying colorful scenes of farm life. At 78, when arthritis rendered her unable to embroider, friends suggested she try painting instead....