Split Seconds: Four Decades of News Photography

Split Seconds: from the Pacific Northwest and Beyond by Barry Sweet

Price: $19.95 Raleigh Press 

If it weren’t for Seattle-based Associated Press photographer Barry Sweet, the world might never have seen photos of the first Americans to orbit the moon after their splashdown. 

“NASA didn’t want the press too close to the splashdown site, in case they opened the capsule door and found the men dead. We had to stay on a near-by Navy ship, so I bought cameras from the ship store and gave them to the military helicopter crew that would fly the astronauts back to the ship. I told the crew if they took pictures and gave me the film - I’d let them keep the cameras.”

Barry will be signing his book at the Shoreline/Aurora Village Costco Aug. 18 from 11am to 1pm.