Flipboard Art & Photo DeskGene Herrick, the Associated Press photographer who took iconic pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, and covered the Korean War and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till, died last week at age 97. He started at the AP aged 16 in Columbus, Ohio, as an office assistant, and retired in 1972. Here's the agency's tribute to him.
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Gene Herrick, AP photographer who covered the Korean War and civil rights, dies at 97
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 civil rights movement, died Friday. He was 97. In 1956, Herrick photographed Rosa Parks being fingerprinted during the boycott that followed her refusal to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That same year, Herrick captured an image of King smiling while being kissed by Coretta Scott King on the courthouse steps. Herrick joined the AP at age 16 during World War II and retired in 1970 to start a new career working with the developmentally disabled.
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