My Lai Massacre

Retired AP reporter Sid Moody dies at 83, covered Warren Commission report, My Lai massacre

Retired Associated Press feature writer Sid Moody, who chronicled major events of the 20th century from the assassination of John F.

Kennedy to the Iranian hostage crisis, has died. He was 83.Moody's son Clarke Moody said Tuesday that his father died Sunday in at a hospital in Morristown, N.J. A longtime resident of Bernardsville, N.J., Moody spent his last years at a retirement community in Bernards Township, N.J.He joined the AP in Newark, N.J. in 1956 and later moved to the Newsfeatures department in New York City. There Moody was part of a group known as the "Poets' Corner" who supplied feature copy for newspapers around the world.During his almost four decades at the AP, Moody covered such events as the Warren Commission report on Kennedy's assassination, the trial of Lee Harvey Oswald's murderer Jack Ruby, the Detroit race riots, the My Lai massacre, North Korea's capture of the spy ship USS Pueblo, the kidnapping of a bus full of school children in Chowchilla, Calif. and the mas...

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