Charlotte’s Don Sturkey, once one of the nation’s best news photographers, dies at 93 He was as great a mentor and friend as he was a photographer, Jeff Siner says.

Sturkey photographed John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, Lyndon B. Johnson sitting on the porch of a tenant farmer in Rocky Mount, Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, Pope John Paul II, Satchel Paige, Elvis Presley and Carl Sandburg. bit.ly/3CXvRhw #newsphotographer, #CharlotteObserver, #DonSturkey

Charlotte’s Don Sturkey, once one of the nation’s best news photographers, dies at 93 He was as great a mentor and friend as he was a photographer, Jeff Siner says.

Sturkey photographed John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, Lyndon B. Johnson sitting on the porch of a tenant farmer in Rocky Mount, Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, Pope John Paul II, Satchel Paige, Elvis Presley and Carl Sandburg. #newsphotographer, #photojournalist, #CharlotteObserver, #DonSturkey