Thank you, Ron, for the fantastic sails over the years, with your friends and lovely wife, Grace. Working with a go-pro, you never felt you were being filmed. Ron Edmonds, a photographer for The Associated Press, won a Pulitzer Prize for a dramatic series of pictures of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan and the take-down of the gunman outside a Washington hotel in 1981. When he was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer for spot news photography, Mr. Edmonds told The A.P., “I wish it had been for a picture that had not been of violence, of people getting hurt.”  Ron's photographs of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat shaking hands, as President Bill Clinton embraced them after the signing of a peace accord in 1993; a bare-chested Reagan up a tree and sawing a limb from it on his California ranch; and the eruptions of the volcanoes Kilauea, in Hawaii, and Mount St. Helens, in Washington State. While working in Hawaii in 1973, Mr. Edmonds was assigned to take photographs of an Elvis Presley concert carried worldwide by satellite from Honolulu. But Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, wanted to ban all press coverage. 

Ron passed away on May 31, 2024. Ron was 77 and is survived by his wife, Grace; his daughter, Ashley Edmonds; his sister, LaVonne Edmonds Coen; and his brother, Donald.