Oriskany veteran, photojournalist to speak

Award-winning author/photojournalist Art Giberson, who once served on the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, will speak at 5:30 p.m. tonight at Navarre Library. The Oriskany was sunk several years ago to create a reef in the ocean south of Pensacola.

Giberson has written eight nonfiction books and two novels and is working on his next book,  “Anything but the Truth,”   scheduled for release in early summer. Giberson has written for such national publications as Vietnam Magazine, GRIT and Technical Photography as well as a variety of regional and local publications.

He retired from the U.S. Navy in 1977 with the rank of Chief Petty Officer. During more than 20 years of service, he served on two aircraft carriers, USS Lake Champlain and USS Oriskany, the submarine tender USS Orion and the destroyer USS Zellars. In October 1962, while serving aboard the Zellars, he participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also served with the U.S. Submarine Base, New London, Conn.; Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group; and the Naval Schools of Photography. A Vietnam veteran, he made two deployments to Southeast Asia.

Navarre Library is at 8484 James Harvell Road, east of State Road 87.