NPPA Life Member James K.W. Atherton, 83

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Atherton retired from The Washington Post in 1990 after a career that included two decades as a staffer with United Press International before he joined the Post in 1970. During his 40-year career he covered every U.S. President from Truman to Nixon and was a major influence on photographers and news photography in the nation’s capitol