found: Washington post WWW site, viewed July 25, 2016(Fred Ward, a longtime Washington photographer who captured memorable images of the funeral of President John F. Kennedy and the Beatles' first American concert and who traveled the world on assignment for National Geographic magazine, died July 19 [2016] at his home in Malibu, Calif.; he was 81; on his first day in Washington in 1962, Mr. Ward parked his Volkswagen van in the White House driveway, bounded inside and picked up his credentials as a photographer for the Black Star photo agency; during the 1970s, Mr. Ward spent time in Cuba, compiling a book of photographs that included revealing glimpses of the country's dictatorial leader, Fidel Castro; soon after the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, Mr. Ward gained rare access to the White House and emerged with the 1975 book "Portrait of a President," an intimate record of Gerald R. Ford's early days in the White House; Frederick Newman Ward was born July 16, 1935, in Huntsville, Ala.; developed a specialty in photographing gemstones, sometimes showing their internal structure under a microscope, and became a certified gemologist; he and his wife published nine books on various gems and precious stones; also found time to produce two documentaries about Mexico and to become an early user of computer graphics and digital photography before settling in California in 2004)