Roy Reed
Died on December 10, 2017 at age 87
Mr. Reed was a self-professed “hick-talking Arkansawyer” who worked for The New York Times from 1965 until 1978, spending much of that time crisscrossing the American South covering critical moments in the civil rights struggle.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.