Photojournalist Dirck Halstead, who captured the beginning and end of the Vietnam War, and who photographed key presidential moments, has died, writes Mat Schudel for The Washington Post.

Dirck Halstead, who attended Haverford College, died March 25. He was 85.  

Mr. Halstead got his first camera when he was 13. From that point on, he captured many iconic moments in modern U.S. history.  

He was there when the first U.S. troops arrived in Vietnam and at the fall of Saigon when the U.S. withdrew..  

Mr. Halstead photographed every president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.

He was with President Nixon in China and photographed Nixon’s final departure from the White House.

When the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan took place, he was there.

In 1996, he photographed Bill Clinton embracing Monica Lewinsky at a fundraiser, two years before it was revealed Clinton had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, a White House intern.

His photos made the cover of Time Magazine 50 times, more than any other photographer.

“He wasn’t just a photographer. He was a journalist with a camera,” said Don Carleton, executive director of the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas.

Read more at The Washington Post about the life of Dirck Halstead.