Sam Summerlin
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FILE - In this Aug. 1951 file photo, AP staffer Sam Summerlin, left, interviews Robert J. Santucci of Rochester, N.Y., a United Nations civilian stenographer who has been attending the Kaesong meetings, as they sit outside the entrance to the base camp at Munsan, Korea. Associated Press foreign correspondent Summerlin, who flashed the news to the world that the Korean War had ended and who reported on everything from Latin American revolutions to U.S. race riots during a long and distinguished career, has died at age 89. He died Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at a care home in Carlsbad, Calif., from complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to his daughter, Claire Slattery of Encinitas, Calif. (AP Photo/Bob Schutz, File)
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FILE - In this July 4, 1958 file photo, AP Chief of Bureau Sam Summerlin is pictured in his Buenos Aires office. Associated Press foreign correspondent Summerlin, who flashed the news to the world that the Korean War had ended and who reported on everything from Latin American revolutions to U.S. race riots during a long and distinguished career, has died at age 89. He died Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at a care home in Carlsbad, Calif., from complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to his daughter, Claire Slattery of Encinitas, Calif. (AP Photo, File)
