Quite famous kiwi journalist Peter Arnett has died in Los Angeles aged 91. He became a celebrated war correspondent for US networks and won a Pulitzer prize for his reporting.

As the ODT headline says, "From Bluff to Bagdad".

R.I.P.

https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/obituary-peter-arnett-bluff-baghdad

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Obituary: Peter Arnett, from Bluff to Baghdad

Of the many New Zealand journalists who have reported around the globe, Peter Arnett arguably became one of the most visible on the international...

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Wayne Perkins, Guitarist Who Nearly Joined the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dead at 74

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Obituary of Paul Wade Beaton | Eagles Funeral Home

It is with heavy hearts that the family of Paul Wade Beaton announces his passing on March 6,…
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"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."

"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.

"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...

"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
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Selma voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette dies at 85, son says

Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. LaFayette laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He helped lead the fight to integrate Nashville, Tennessee, as a student. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. LaFayette was an organizer with the Chicago Freedom Movement and national coordinator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.

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Dunedin author, photographer and conservationist Neville Peat has died, aged 78. He was a good man who leaves behind a legacy of community service. R.I.P.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/conservationist-author-deeply-loving-man

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Conservationist, author a ‘deeply loving’ man

Dunedin author and photographer Neville Peat has died, aged 78. Mr Peat’s wife, Mary Hammonds, said she and the couple’s daughter, Sophora, were ...

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