BATON ROUGE -- Services for former television anchorman and news reporter Bob Johnson will be announced by Rabenhorst. He died Feb. 30 at age 77.
Johnson, covering the story for WBRZ-TV, was severely beaten and kicked covering a racial protest in 1972 and never walked or spoke again.
Two East Baton Rouge deputies and two protestors were killed in the violence at the scene and a third protestor died later from injuries.
Johnson was considered a pioneer of television news in Louisiana.
Survivors include his wife, Audrey.
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