Patrick Hamilton, ex-AP and Reuters photographer who covered Central American wars, dies at 74
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FILE - A Guatemalan woman, showing signs of severe malnutrition, lies on a cot at a makeshift clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of China, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, July 7, 1984. Pat Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74. (AP Photo/Pat Hamilton, File)This undated family photo shows photographer Pat Hamilton in El Salvador. Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74. (Courtesy Sylvia Hamilton via AP)FILE - Salvadoran troops rest on the porch of a deserted farm house between Suchitoto and San Jose Guayabal, El Salvador, March 1981. Pat Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74. (AP Photo/Pat Hamilton, File)FILE - Sandinista presidential candidate Daniel Ortega answers a question, Nov. 5, 1984, during a news conference in Managua, Nicaragua. Ortega claimed victory during the conference. Pat Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74. (AP Photo/Pat Hamilton, File)FILE - Sandinista youth form a human pyramid, waving their party colors in front of Commandante Daniel Ortega, Nov. 4, 1984, in downtown Managua, Nicaragua, during his last political rally of the presidential elections. Pat Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74. (AP Photo/Pat Hamilton, File)
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FILE - A Guatemalan woman, showing signs of severe malnutrition, lies on a cot at a makeshift clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of China, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, July 7, 1984. Pat Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74. (AP Photo/Pat Hamilton, File)