Photographer of Viral Trump Rally Shooting Pic Spills on Historic Moment
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer who captured the image of an injured, defiant Donald Trump waving his fist to a sea of supporters on Saturday after an apparent assassination attempt knew he had one task: to keep his camera on his subject.
“It’s a moment in history that you have to document, right?” Evan Vucci told The Daily Beast by phone late Saturday, hours after he captured the shocking images. “Being a photographer, you have to, have to be there. I can’t write about it later. I can’t go back in time and get a redo. So you have to do your job.”
Vucci was one of the pool photographers on duty during Trump’s late-day rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, one he perceived as a normal rally—not unlike those he’d covered before. Until, over his left shoulder, he heard gunshots.