Education
He attended Roman Catholic-affiliated Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
He attended Roman Catholic-affiliated Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
A native of Rock Island, Illinois, he was a United States Navy veteran of the Korean War, in which he served as an aerial photographer, with duties aboard the United States Ship Essex (CV-9). He worked at Korean Music Television, the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate in Omaha, as a producer from 1962 to 1965 for the later National Broadcasting Company anchorman Tom Brokaw. Hall was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize in photojournalism.
He photographed each United States. Presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald West. Reagan.
He also worked for the Omaha World-Herald, the Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the defunct Louisville Times in Louisville, Kentucky. Since 1968, he had resided in Cheyenne, where he was on the staff of Wyoming Wildlife magazine, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, and the Wyoming State Museum.
In 1976, he served as the executive director of the Wyoming Bicentennial Commission. He became the first editor of High Country News based in Lander, Wyoming.
Hall died in Cheyenne at the age of eighty-one.
Hall was a member of the historic Saint Mary"s Catholic Cathedral on Capitol Avenue in downtown Cheyenne.