On Assignment The Great War - Edward N. Jackson Photojournalist

Edward Jackson takes you back to the very begining of the U.S. involvement of World War One. Also shows his early years as a press photographer shooting the famous and infamous. Jackson joined the Signal Corps at the age of 34 and tells about troop training, the "Fighting 27th. Division" who he went with to France. Jackson describes every blow-by-blow of his never before published photographs. He photographed the armistice and became President Wilson's European photographer. He went back to France as the official escort of the American Gold Star Mothers in 1930.