About Charles Barthold
Born 1901. Charles Barthold was an American photographer, photojournalist and journalist.
Charles Barthold is a news photographer for WHO-TV of Des Moines, Iowa, who won the 1976 Peabody Award for his film and photography of the Jordan Tornado in Jordan, Iowa. The film and video he shot allowed famed University of Chicago meteorologist Ted Fujita to clearly see that one of the tornadoes was an anticyclonic tornado. The Barthold film was the first time that such a tornado had been captured on film and opened up a branch of tornado study to determine how the anticyclonic vortex formed.
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Who was Charles Barthold?
American photojournalist
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Charles Barthold was born in 1901.
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Charles Barthold was a photographer, photojournalist and journalist.
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Charles Barthold was American.
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