Michael Evans

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Michael Evans (photographer)

Michael Arthur Worden "Mike" Evans (21 June 1944 – 1 December 2005) was an American newspaper, magazine, and presidential photographer. He was President Ronald Reagan's personal photographer during his first term as president from 1981 through 1985. Evans is best remembered for his 1976 iconic photo of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat taken while Evans was working for Equus Magazine, that made the covers of many magazines in the week after Reagan's death in 2004. He was nominated for Pulitzer Prize while shooting for The New York Times.

Life and career

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Evans was the son of a Canadian diplomat, Arthur Worden Evans, and a registered nurse, Audrey Evans, née Grant-Dalton. Evans lived in Havana, Cuba, and Cape Town, South Africa, in his youth. His first job at the age of 15 was at the Port Hope Evening Guide in Ontario, Canada; then he worked as a photographer for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, The New York Times and Time magazine.

Mike Evans (journalist)

Michael David Evans (born June 30, 1947) is an author, journalist, commentator and the head of several international non-profit organizations in the U.S. and Netherlands. Evans is also a Christian Zionist.

Evans has written 42 books and has provided analysis and commentary on Middle East affairs for a variety of media. He has appeared on network television and radio shows. His op-eds have been published in The Washington Times,The Jerusalem Post and others. He founded and serves as head of a number of politically conservative Christian organizations.

Biography

Personal life and faith

Michael David Evans was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 30, 1947, to a non-practicing Jewish mother whose parents were immigrants from the Soviet Union. Following his discharge from the United States Army, Evans moved to Texas where he earned an Associate of Arts degree from Southwestern Assemblies of God College.

As a child, he suffered at the hands of his virulently anti-Semitic father, who regularly got drunk and violent, and beat his wife, claiming that Mike was not his son; he did not think he would survive until he was twenty. At age 11, he objected to his father beating his mother, and was assaulted; when he recovered, he had what he describes as a dramatic encounter with Jesus Christ, who promised him a future.