A New Orleans Gay Bar Inferno Killed 32. Roy Reed Was First to Report the Truth.
A New Orleans Gay Bar Inferno Killed 32. Roy Reed Was First to Report the Truth. Robert W. Fieseler © Provided by The Daily Beast Jack Thornell/AP The late journalist and New Orleans resident Roy Reed, who passed away in 2017, is perhaps best known for his enterprising Civil Rights-era coverage in The New York Times, including a March 1965 attack of state troopers on unarmed marchers in Selma, Alabama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Times story of the ensuing carnage, known as Bloody Sunday, Reed boldly wrote of white troopers who “tore through column of Negro demonstrator...
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