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Virginia papers win AP citation for coverage in 1961 crash
Three Virginia newspapers and WCYB radio TV were cited by the AP Managing Editors Association for outstanding news and photo coverage. Richmond Times-Dispatch Roanoke Times and Richmond News Leader plus WCYB produced rapid, thorough reporting and images on the Richmond airliner crash near the airport on November 3, 1961, that killed three crew members and 74 army recruits.
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Associated Press
Associated Press Managing Editors’ Association
Richmond Times - Dispatch
Roanoke Times
Richmond News Leader
WCYB
Bristol
Richmond Times
Richmond
Times - Dispatch
Cntestinaah
Eben E. Cobb
North Carolina
Republican
Charlotte Observer
The
Times
Cobb
Virginia
Oxford
Miss
William Faulk
East
Tennessee
Robert H. Smith
Walter Crockett
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond AP
Morganton
N. C
Roanoke
State Senate
William E. Cobb
W. Edward Cobb