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welcome to the corporate archives of the Associated Press today I want to show you some materials that document the history of wire photo wire photo developed by the AP was the most transformational technology since the telegraph AP will celebrate wire photo’s 90th anniversary throughout January 2025 when renowned Aviator Wy post and actor Will Rogers died in a plane crash wire photo captured the scene when the Airship Hindenburg exploded Murray Becker’s picture moved on wire photo when Jessie Owens took four gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin in August 1936 wire photo transmitted the images AP promoted and sold its wire photo service over many decades by 1960 it had been adopted overseas