George Herbert Walker Bush is the 41st President of the United States and the father of the George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts to Prescott Bush, a U.S. senator from Connecticut, and Dorothy Walker Bush. He spent his youth in Greenwich, Connecticut and Andover, Massachusetts, where he become involved in student government, sports, and the school newspaper. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he became an aviator for the U.S. Navy. Bush married Barbara Pierce in 1945, and they eventually had six children, George, Robin, John (called Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. After earning a degree from Yale University, Bush moved to Midland, Texas to work in the oil industry, eventually starting two companies. After moving to Houston, he began to pursue a career in politics and served as Chairman of the Republican Party in Harris County. After a failed campaign for the Senate, he won election to the House of Representatives in 1966 and served two terms for Texas. In 1970, he attempted to win a seat in the Senate, but lost again. After this defeat, Bush was appointed by President Nixon to be an Ambassador to the United Nations. He then served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Chief of the U. S. Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, and Director of the CIA. In 1980, Bush lost the Republican nomination to run for President, but he was chosen as Ronald Reagan’s running mate. He was Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Following Reagan’s second term, Bush was elected President. During his term, he secured a peaceful partnership with Russia at the end of the Cold War, and he led Operation Desert Storm to free Kuwait from Iraq. Despite these successes, Bush’s popularity suffered due to the weak economy, and he lost reelection for a second term to Bill Clinton. He and Barbara returned to Houston in 1992, where they continue to live. 

Gordon Wilkison began work as a cameraman at the local Austin television station KTBC (now FOX 7) during 1952, its first year of operation.  At the time the station was owned by the Texas Broadcasting Company, which was owned by Senator Lyndon B. and Lady Bird Johnson. This relationship would continue to shape Wilkison's career well into the next decades - during the Johnson administration, Wilkison covered the president's visits to Texas, preparing material for national and international news correspondents.    A particularly notable moment in his career occurred on August 1, 1966, when Wilkison and KTBC reporter Neal Spelce risked their lives to capture footage of the Tower shooting at the University of Texas.    Wilkison was also the General Manager of Photo Processors at the LBJ Broadcasting Corporation, which he later took over and renamed Cenetex Film Labs. In addition to his camera work and film processing, his work at the station also included direction of a number of television film productions.   Outside of KTBC, Wilkison shot, edited, and processed Longhorn football game footage for the University of Texas, a partnership that lasted nearly 30 years.       Recognizing the historical value of film and news footage, Wilkison kept the material, later contributing hundreds of reels to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image's collection.