Gene Herrick

Categoria (época de atuação)

1890 - 2000

Nascimento

1919

Morte

2016

Biography

“Gene E. Herrick, who was a photographer and journalist with the Associated Press for twenty-eight years, beginning in 1943. Over the course of nearly three decades, Herrick covered many of the most controversial and vital stories of recent history, including major sporting events, political conventions, five presidents of the United States, the Emmitt Till trial, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and civil rights protests. He was a war correspondent for the AP at the beginning of the Korean War in 1950 and went from Pusan in the south to the Yalu River in the far North Korea at the Manchurian border. He was named one of the ten Essential Civil Rights Movement Photographers and in 2018 was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame.”

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