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LOCKWOOD Lee

Lee Jonathan Lockwood.

Date of birth : May 4, 1932, New York.

Date of death : July 31, 2010, Tamarac, Florida.

Profession photographer.

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He became interested in photography during his childhood. He earned an undergraduate degree in 1954 from Boston University with a major incomparative literature, and later attended Columbia University.

During the 1950s he served in the United States Army where he was stationed in Germany.

After leaving military service, he traveled widely around the world, with his pictures being distributed by the Black Star photo agency.

During a trip to Cuba in 1965, he was able to arrange a lenghty interview with leader Fidel Castro

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His book "Castro’s Cuba, Cuba's Fidel: An American Journalist's Inside Look at Today's Cuba in Text and Picture" was intended to give American readers a clearer picture of the Cuban leader.

While in Cuba, he had obtained a visa and traveled to North Vietnam in 1967, making him the first Western journalist to visit the country in nearly a decade. He traveled around the country during his month-long visit, covering 1 000 miles under the stict supervision of government minders who ensured that he didn't photograph any of the nation's military facilities.

In 1964 he married Joyce Greenfield in New York. They had 2 children, a daughter Gillian and a son Andrew.

Link with Marilyn

He took Marilyn in pictures first during the premiere of "Some Like It Hot" (), on March 29, 1959 in New York.

On April 11, 1961, during the base-ball game between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins at the New York Yankee stadium, along with Joe DiMaggio 

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On June 11, 1961, when she got out of the Polyclinic Hospital, after the gall-bladder surgery .

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