MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Photographer Ernest Withers, who spent more than 60 years documenting history from the blues music of Beale Street to the civil rights movement, died Monday. He was 85.Withers died at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center from complications of a stroke he suffered last month, said his son, Joshua `Billy’ Withers of Los Angeles. As a freelance photographer for black newspapers, Withers traveled with the Rev.

Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and other figures in the civil rights movement, capturing on film the momentous events of the 1950s and ’60s. Withers also photographed jazz and blues musicians who frequented Memphis’ famed Beale Street, such as Rufus Thomas, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.

– associated press Proctor Harvey, noted cardiologist Proctor Harvey, a Georgetown University professor of medicine whose books, teaching and diagnostic skills made him one of the nation’s most respected cardiologists, died Sept. 26 from complications of a fall at his home in Richmond, Va. He was 89.

Harvey had been a professor at Georgetown since 1950 and was considered the nation’s most skilled practitioner of auscultation, or the ability to detect cardiac ailments by listening to the sounds of the heart. He invented stethoscope models, his books have been standard texts for more than 50 years, and his patients included at least four presidents as well as diplomats and Congress members.