Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 88

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https://www.npr.org/2023/05/12/1175801960/hodding-carter-iii-state-department-dies


Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, has died. He was 88.

Before moving to Washington in 1977, Carter was editor and publisher of his family's newspaper, the Delta Democrat-Times, in Greenville, Mississippi.

Carter had been co-chair of the Loyalist Democrats, a racially diverse group that won a credentials fight at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, unseating the all-white delegation by Mississippi's governor, John Bell Williams.

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He was an aide in the Carter administration. A good man has died.

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1. He and his wife -- two of the good ones

He and Patricia Derian were two of the good ones in the Carter administration. Civil rights and human rights.

Was acquainted with them after they retired to Chapel Hill.

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3. Thanks for this

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2. Requiescat in pace, good soul.

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4. Princeton University, class of 1957.