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Flo Fox, Photographer Who Overcame Blindness and Paralysis, Dies at 79

Flo Fox, Photographer Who Overcame Blindness and Paralysis, Dies at 79

Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in Manhattan. She was 79. Her …

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Richard M. Cohen, News Producer Who Faced a Rare Challenge, Dies at 76

Richard M. Cohen, News Producer Who Faced a Rare Challenge, Dies at 76

Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died on Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a village in Westchester County. He was 76. His wife, the former “Today” show host Meredith Vieira, said his death, in a hospital, …

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