Former AP executive Bob Johnson, a champion of open government, dies at age 84

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: AP

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: Robert H. "Bob" Johnson, a champion for open government and a former Associated Press executive who during a 42-year career wrote AP's first bulletin on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. He was 84.

After retiring from the news cooperative in 1988, Johnson helped start the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government and made a new career out of fighting for public access to government meetings and records.

Johnson suffered a stroke Saturday morning as he prepared to go to work at the foundation, where he served as executive director. He died later that evening.

"He was a workaholic all his life, and was right up to the end," said his wife, Luise Putcamp Johnson.



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RIP

[Stargleamer]

1. Ironic that he died during the most closed government ever

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[Captain Hilts]

2. He must have seen what a right-wing crank source of news AP has become. nt

[duhneece]

3. Bob Johnson was one of the good guys

I phoned him for information more than a dozen times. He would quote chapter & verse of the laws that I needed to get the truth from various government agencies.