Death of a teller of stories of The Civil Rights Movement

Roy Reed has died.
From the NY Times "obit"

"He was at the Pettus Bridge in Selma on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, when troopers, as he wrote, “tore through a column of Negro demonstrators with tear gas, nightsticks and whips.......


Remembering the scene years later, he wrote, “I hope never again to see such hatred in the eyes of men, women and, yes, children.”

Reed was 87