Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till, passed away at the age of 97. In 1956, Herrick captured the historic moment when Rosa Parks was fingerprinted after refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
NationalFILE - In this March 22, 1956, file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife, Coretta, after leaving court in Montgomery , Ala. Gene Herrick , a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. , Rosa Parks and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement , died Friday, April 12, 2024. He was 97.
Herrick's longtime companion Kitty Hylton said he died at a nursing home in Rich Creek, Virginia, surrounded by people who loved him. Herrick was particularly proud of his Korean War coverage. “Good journalists want to go where the action is, wherever it is,” he said for an AP article in 2018. Herrick joined the AP at age 16 in Columbus, Ohio, as an office assistant. Two years later he transferred to Cleveland, where he lived with an AP photographer and often assisted him. Herrick got his big break when his roommate was unable to cover a Cleveland Indians game, and he was asked to take his place.Herrick was equally stunned when, not long after, he was promoted to AP photographer in Memphis.
He retired from the AP in 1970 to start a second career working with the developmentally disabled in Columbus, and later in Rocky Mount, Virginia.
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