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Published September 25, 2011, 12:00 AM

Cal Olson's photos


Cowboy Max Wilson eats beans near Sentinel Butte, N.D., in this photo published May 9, 1954, in The Forum. Photo by Cal Olson / The Forum

  • Cowboy Max Wilson eats beans near Sentinel Butte, N.D., in this photo published May 9, 1954, in The Forum. Photo by Cal Olson / The Forum
  • Forum photographer Cal Olson, right, interviews a soldier in Vietnam. Olson spent March 1966 in Vietnam interviewing and photographing soldiers from The Forum’s circulation area. Forum file photo
  • Cal Olson in 2007. He passed away in July 2009. Forum file photo
  • Forum photographer Cal Olson took this photo of President John F. Kennedy during a 1963 visit to Grand Forks. Olson also photographed presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson when they came to North Dakota.
  • With the body of 5-year-old Jeanette Irene Munson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Munson, tenderly cradled in his arms, Richard Shaw, 21, stumbled through wreckage of the tornado as he was photographed by Forum photographer Cal Olson. Jeanette was one of six Munson children killed by the twister. Shaw, 902 26th St. N., was a neighbor of the Munson family. Photo by Cal Olson / The Forum
  • Many images in Cal Olson's collection capture everyday life in the Red River Valley. This photo published Dec. 21, 1952, is of Charles Christianson playing his accordion at a Christmas program in rural Hickson, N.D. Cal Olson / The Forum