ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Shel Hershorn, a Denver-born photojournalist who captured iconic images of the civil rights movement but who slowly turned away from the profession to become a furniture maker after photographing a fatally wounded, Lee Harvey Oswald, has died.
His wife, Sonja, said he died Saturday of phenomena at the age of 82.
Born Herbert Sheldon Hershorn, he began his career as a photographer at a newspaper in Casper, Wyo. and later at United Press International in Dallas in 1954. He captured images of the Freedom Riders and Alabama Gov. George Wallace attempting to block black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama.
He moved to Taos, N.M. in 1970 and became a furniture maker but taught photography on the side to actor Dennis Hopper among others.
