For more than 45 years, Lyle has squinted into a little box, pushing the button at just the right moment. In darkrooms he developed his images by hand, coaxing out just the right amount of light and dark on paper. He was a prize-winning photojournalist. As a newspaper photographer for both The Kansas City Star and The Kansas City Times, Lyle bore witness to the dramas of the day, photographing the horrific and the mundane, the contrived and the unexpected. His work for the newspapers stands as some of the best, say his peers. Subjects of his photographs include Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, Jack Benny, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Thomas Hart Benton and The Beatles.