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FILE - In this file photo from the late 1970's Kathryn Johnson works at The Associated Press' bureau in Atlanta. Johnson, a trailblazing reporter for the AP, died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at the age of 93, in Atlanta. Her intrepid coverage of the civil rights movement and other major stories led to a string of legendary scoops. Johnson was the only journalist allowed inside Martin Luther King Jr.'s home the day he was assassinated. (AP Photo)

Former AP civil rights reporter Kathryn Johnson dies

By ALLEN G. BREED - Associated Press

Former Associated Press photographer Gene Herrick poses between two of his most famous pictures at his home in Rocky Mount, Va., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Herrick covered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from his beginnings as a local preacher in Montgomery, Ala., in 1956 to his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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By JAY REEVES - Associated Press