World through the lens of Richard 'Dick' Kraus, longtime Newsday photographer
Richard "Dick" Kraus captured some of the most indelible moments in history with his lens. Scroll through for some highlights from a 42-year career with Newsday, spanning 1960-2002.
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A tractor moves the reconstructed wreckage of TWA Flight 800 from the hangar where it was pieced together, to another hangar at the old Grumman plant in Calverton.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy answers questions from reporters at an Irish Brunch held at Charley O's Pub in Manhattan on March 17, 1966.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Jimmy Carter holds up on of the two loaves of bread he was presented during his whistle stop campaign trip through New Jersey and Pennsylvania on September 20, 1976.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Frank Ford, of Babylon, design engineer on the Lunar Excursion Module mechinical design leans on one of the legs of the mock-up at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. in Bethpage on March 9, 1966.
Credit: Newsday File Photo/ Dick Kraus
Nassau GOP leader Joe Margiotta and President Richard M. Nixon greet the crowd at a Nassau Coliseum rally on Oct. 23, 1972.
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Dr. James Watson, discoverer of the double helix, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
The Avianca crash site in Cove Neck, where dozens died, on Jan. 26, 1990.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
An aerial photo of the crowd and stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in White Lake, New York, on August 17, 1969.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Muhammad Ali emerges from the dining hall of his Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, training camp to greet a group of children who had come by bus on July 24, 1978.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Engineers at Grumman's Plant 25 who were instrumental in the Lunar Module development watch it perform during the flight of Apollo 9 from an overhead television in the first live broadcast on March 5, 1969 in Bethpage.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Billy Joel mixes some tapes on a mixer in the music room of his Cove Neck home on Dec. 20, 1978.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Billy Joel and his then-wife Elizabeth play with their dog on their property in Cove Neck on Dec. 20, 1978.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Martin Tankleff sobs as he hears a jury pronounce him guilty on two counts of second degree murder during his trial in Riverhead on June 28, 1990.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
John (Sonny) Franzese is brought into Brooklyn Federal Court after being picked up by FBI agents on April 12, 1966.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds an American flag at the Washington, D.C., funeral of her husband John F. Kennedy on November 23, 1963
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
On March 14, 1965, Sean P. Keating, grand marshal of the Hempstead St. Patrick's Day parade, is joined by Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg and New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on the reviewing stand on Main Street.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
A 3,450-pound great white shark nicknamed "Big Guy," landed by Montauk's famous skipper Frank Mundus, right, and Donnie Braddick, as seen on Aug. 7, 1986.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
Mets pitcher Tom Seaver fires one in against the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st inning of the season opener on April 6, 1973 at Shea Stadium.
Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus
President Lyndon B. Johnson waves to crowds as he leaves the U.S. Mission to the United Nations on First Avenue in Manhattan on October 7, 1966.

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