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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Audrey McAvoy

Paul Driscoll, an unflappable editor who led the AP's Chicago bureau for decades, has died at age 91

Obit-Driscoll - (Lindsey Tanner)

Paul Driscoll, an Associated Press journalist and newsroom leader who covered the civil rights movement and 1968 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, died Friday. He was 91.

He died at his home in Cadyville, New York, with his wife of 35 years, retired AP journalist Lindsey Tanner, holding his hand. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer in July and had entered hospice care earlier this month, Tanner said.

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