In the photo at left, Clinton County native Linda Asberry Angelle, left, is shown with NBC affiliate KXAS‑TV anchor and health reporter Bianca Castro, with the Emmy Awards they were presented with last month for a piece the pair worked on involving 3-D tattoos for breast cancer survivors. Above, Angelle is seen in a recent photo while she was on the scene filming a breaking news event for her Dallas-Fort Worth area news station, where she has been on staff for more than three decades.

In her more than three decades working behind the viewfinder as a television news photojournalist, Albany native Linda Asberry Angelle has covered countless events, mostly in the Dallas / Fort Worth area that she has called home for the past 30 plus years.

Angelle has covered natural disasters and has been caught in the middle of a tornado as well as shooting sporting events like the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl and the Texas Rangers in the World Series.

She has been behind the camera for interviews with superstars the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Pavarotti and Tom Hanks.

Angelle, the daughter of the late Hale Asberry and Arawana Asberry, is a 1976 graduate of Clinton County High School and grew up in the Sugar Valley Community of southeast Clinton County.

Working behind the camera has taken her to two presidential inaugurations of the Texas George Bushes and has put her on the scene of some of the country’s worst but most memorial events such as the Waco Branch Davidian standoff and eventual explosion and fire, as well as the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Last month she placed yet another pin into the long list of “most memorable” events of her long career, when she heard her name called to come onto the stage and become the recipient of one of the broadcast industry’s most prestigious awards – the Emmy.

Working with one of the anchor reporters at her home station, Bianca Castro, the pair reported a story about a local tattoo artist and medical illustrator from the area who had combined her techniques to provide medical tattoos that are changing the lives of breast cancer survivors.

Angelle explained that the health news piece centered around the methods being used by Marie Sena to construct 3-D nipple tattoos for dozens of women who have had breast reconstruction after mastectomies.

She also noted that while editing the feature, she had to work in such a manner that gave attention to detail and the work being painstakingly completed by the tattoo artist, without ever showing on camera that patient’s breast.

Apparently, Angelle was successful in completing that task because when the piece aired, her station told her they were going to nominate it for an Emmy award.

Attending the Lone Star Emmy ceremony last month, Angelle said she was among a host of journalists whose works were in the running for Emmy awards, and knowing the level of competition she was up against, there was no certainty that their work would be selected.

After stopping by the Clinton County News office last week on one of her many trips back to her childhood home, Angelle told News Editor Al Gibson about her anxiety feelings during the presentation banquet.

“There were a lot of entries nominated including stories from NASA so we didn’t know if ours would win. I had my fingers crossed and then they called our story! Everyone from our station was clapping and cheering and then we were on the stage getting our statue.” Angelle said. “And I didn’t trip going up the stairs. It was a good night!

Angelle said that after she and Castro won the Emmy, her station did a re-broadcast of the piece again and it continues to be one of the most viewed on the station’s website.

A simple search of “Healing Tattoos on Breast Cancer Survivors” on the station’s website, www.nbcdfw.com will allow readers to view the piece.