Rocco Morabito (photographer)

Rocco Morabito (November 2, 1920 – April 5, 2009)[1] was an American photographer who spent the majority of his career at the Jacksonville Journal.

Morabito, born in Port Chester, New York, moved to Florida when he was 5, and by age 10 was working as a newsboy, selling papers for the Jacksonville Journal.

[1] He served in World War II in the Army Air Forces as a ball-turret gunner on a B-17.

After the war, he returned to the Jacksonville Journal and started his photography career shooting sporting events for the paper.

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