Guy Coates, longtime AP reporter in Louisiana, dies at 80
By KEVIN McGILLJanuary 14, 2021 GMT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Guy Coates, a former Associated Press correspondent who covered Gulf Coast hurricanes and civil rights, dodged gunfire during a New Orleans sniper’s shooting spree and chronicled the tumult of politics in his native Louisiana for four decades, died late Tuesday. He was 80.
His wife Jonica said Wednesday that he died at their Baton Rouge home of natural causes.
A graduate of Northeast Louisiana University in his hometown of Monroe, Coates worked stints at the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times; The Times of Shreveport; KNOE-TV in Monroe; and KSLA-TV in Shreveport. He joined The AP in New Orleans in 1968, where assignments could be mundane hours on the broadcast rewrite desk or dangerous.
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