gaffa
04-14-2012, 12:19 AM
Every member of the US military has an official photograph, and I presume they have been doing this for a while.
I just checked, and the Wikipedia entry for Rick Rescorla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla) does not have an image of this man who saved a huge number of people from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was killed in the collapse when he went back in to make sure.
There is an image of Rescorla in uniform (http://www.calegionpost149.org/Rescorla/RickRescorlaCOLArmyPhoto.jpg) that looks much more carefully posed than most official photographs, but then he left the service as a Colonel - so presumably they get a bit more care.
The question is - is this image likely to be an official photograph, and therefore created by the US government and possibly free for use on Wikipedia? If so, where would I find it along with the proof of it's copyright status? Is it somewhere in the National Archive and do any folks here know their way around it?
I just checked, and the Wikipedia entry for Rick Rescorla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla) does not have an image of this man who saved a huge number of people from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was killed in the collapse when he went back in to make sure.
There is an image of Rescorla in uniform (http://www.calegionpost149.org/Rescorla/RickRescorlaCOLArmyPhoto.jpg) that looks much more carefully posed than most official photographs, but then he left the service as a Colonel - so presumably they get a bit more care.
The question is - is this image likely to be an official photograph, and therefore created by the US government and possibly free for use on Wikipedia? If so, where would I find it along with the proof of it's copyright status? Is it somewhere in the National Archive and do any folks here know their way around it?