What a journalist with integrity, honor and heart looks like..RIP Karl Fleming...
Karl Fleming, Reporter Who Covered Civil Rights Era, Dies at 84
By DENNIS HEVESI
Published: August 16, 2012
Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who dodged bullets and choked on tear gas while covering some of the most momentous events of the civil rights era, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
The cause was respiratory illness, his son Charles said.
A son of the South, Mr. Fleming was in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on June 11, 1963, when Gov. George C. Wallace fulfilled his pledge to “stand in the schoolhouse door” and then stepped aside when handed a presidential order to allow two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama. Days later, Mr. Fleming was in Jackson, Miss., reporting on the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/karl-fleming-reporter-who-covered-civil-rights-dies-at-84.html