Bob Walker (photographer)
Robert John Walker (6 January 1952–19 September 1992) was a San Francisco, California-based photographer and environmental activist. In an intense period of activism from 1982 to 1992 he was associated with more than a dozen Bay Area conservation organizations and as a photographer for the East Bay Regional Park District. Walker was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. He died in San Francisco of AIDS-related complications, at the age of 40.
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“It was because of me. Rumors reached Inman that I had made a deal with Bob Dole whereby Dole would fill a paper sack full of doggie poo, set it on fire, put it on Inman’s porch, ring the doorbell, and then we would hide in the bushes and giggle when Inman came to stamp out the fire. I am not proud of this. But this is what we do in journalism.”
—Roger Simon, U.S. syndicated columnist. Quoted in Newsweek, p. 15 (January 31, 1990)
“croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
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—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)