Former AP photographer, touted for iconic Civil Rights coverage, dies at 97
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 Published On Apr 19, 2024

(14 Apr 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Rocky Mount, Virginia – 19 June 2020
1. Close of former AP photographer Gene Herrick during interview
2. Various of Herrick in his office showing photo of himself taking pictures
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Herrick, Former AP photographer:
“My history is really pretty great, and a journalist hates to say that.”

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ARCHIVE: Korea – 12 September 1950
4. STILL image taken by Herrick shows a grim battle experience reflected in the youthful face of Pfc. William McLendon of Columbia, S.C., as he takes a breather under a tree near the Masan sector

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ARCHIVE: Korea – 29 August 1950
5. STILL image taken by Herrick of South Korean President Syngman Rhee, left, and Gen. Edward Craig, shown at attention during the playing of the Korean National Anthem

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ARCHIVE: Rocky Mount, Virginia – 19 June 2020
6. Various of Herrick during interview and details in his office
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Herrick, Former Associated Press photographer:
“It was very different living in the South from the North, extremely different.”

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ARCHIVE: Montgomery, Alabama – 22 February 1956
8. STILL image taken by Herrick of Rosa Parks getting fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955

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ARCHIVE: Clinton, Tennessee – 31 August 1956
9. STILL image taken by Herrick of an angry mob trying to overturn a car carrying Black passengers

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ARCHIVE: Hoxie, Alabama – 9 August 1955
10. STILL image taken by Herrick of an African American student raising his hand to speak at the consolidated school. There were 23 African American students and 950 white grade and high school students at the newly integrated school

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ARCHIVE: Rocky Mount, Virginia - 2 February 2018
11. Various of Herrick looking through a book containing his photos

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ARCHIVE: Rocky Mount, Virginia – 19 June 2020
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Herrick, Former Associated Press photographer:
“They arrested these two half-brothers, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant for killing Emmett Till. Never happened in Mississippi. Never would have happened. And then they had a trial, they indicted him and had a trial, never before did that ever happen.”

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ARCHIVE: Summer, Mississippi – 6 September 1955
13. STILL image taken by Herrick of J. W. Milam, 36, and half-brother Roy Bryant, 24, speaking with one of their lawyers J.W. Kellum, right, just before pleading innocent

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ARCHIVE: Rocky Mount, Virginia – 19 June 2020
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Herrick, Former Associated Press photographer:
“I knew that was important. But at the moment I didn't know it was historical.”
15. Various of iconic photos framed and hanging on Herrick's wall

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ARCHIVE: Montgomery, Alabama – 22 March 1956
16. STILL image taken by Herrick of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. being welcomed with a kiss by his wife, Coretta, after leaving court

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ARCHIVE: Montgomery, Alabama – 23 February 1956
17. STILL image taken by Herrick of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., right, accompanied by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, center, as he gets booked into jail by city police Lt. D.H. Lackey

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ARCHIVE: Rocky Mount, Virginia – 19 June 2020
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Herrick, Former Associated Press photographer (on the 2020 racial reckoning protests and Black Lives Matter movement):
JOURNALIST: “You do?”
HERRICK: “Yes.”






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