About the Photo
This special photo of Pope John Paul II was taken on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1980, in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, Italy. A little over a year later on May 31, 1981, an assassination attempt would forever change how he would appear in public from that day forward.
The Photographer
The photographer was Tom Dust. He was fortunate to have been in Italy on a school trip and captured the moment using an Olympus SLR camera that he had bought used from a teacher before the trip.