Associated Press Beijing reporter Anita Chang, right, shares a laugh with retired AP special correspondent John Roderick, left, and AP CEO Tom Curley at The Associated Press headquarters in New York in this Sept. 17, 2006 photo. Roderick, a longtime AP correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93.
John Roderick, a retired AP special correspondent, poses at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in 2004 by a photo of himself with Mao Zedong, taken in China, in 1946. Roderick, a longtime A.P. correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93. (AP Photo/Kazuo Abiko.
Lim Tzu-Ham, Chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government, left, is shown with Associated Press correspondent John Roderick, Jan. 17, 1947, in Yenan, China. Roderick, a longtime A.P. correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93. (AP Photo.
United States Army Observation Group members Maj. Kenneth Young, left, and Col. Ivan D. Yeaton right, stand with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, second from left, his 6-year-old daughter Nina, and Associated Press correspondent John Roderick in the Chinese communist capital of Yanan in February 1946. Roderick, a longtime A.P. correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders died Tuesday March 11, 2008. Roderick was 93. (AP Photo/Courtesy of John Roderick.