Joe Holloway, Jr., photographer, 72

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TITUS, Ala. (AP) - Joe Holloway Jr., a longtime Associated Press photographer
who captured some of the most dramatic images of the civil rights movement, the
Vietnam War and sports around the Southeast during his 40-year journalism
career, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 72.

Holloway worked for the Montgomery Advertiser-Journal and UPI. He joined the AP
in 1967 and was dispatched to Vietnam later that year.

One of Holloway's Vietnam photos made the cover of Life magazine. Shooting from
under a car in Saigon, Holloway captured soldiers during a firefight.

When he was slightly wounded by shrapnel, the commander of the 82nd Airborne
Division awarded Holloway a Purple Heart.

After returning from Vietnam, he worked in the AP's Atlanta bureau until
retiring in 1994.

Much of his earlier career was spent chronicling the civil rights struggle in
Mississippi and Alabama.

Survivors include his wife and four children.