Charles h porter iv biography of michaels

On April 19, 1995, the day of the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, a photograph by Charles H.

Porter IV moved across the Associated Press wire — and into history.

The photo — of a firefighter cradling the lifeless body of 1-year-old Baylee Almon — became an icon of America’s worst act of home-grown terrorism.

The Palm Beach Post, like most newspapers around the globe, published the image on the front page.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography in 1996.

Charles Porter, now a physical therapist who shoots weddings on the side in Texas, will speak Saturday at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, as part of an exhibit “Pulitzer Back Stories.”

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On the day of the tragedy, he was 25 and working at a bank across the street from the Murrah Building.

After he heard the explosion — what sounded like a “sonic boom,” he has said — he g