From the AP:

Norman Oliver Walker, a journalist for The Associated Press for more than 30 years in Louisiana and Washington, D.C., died Sunday. He was 96.

Walker died at his Arlington home. His daughter, Andree Walker Lanser, said the cause of death had not been determined.

Walker began his career with the AP in 1934 in New Orleans, where he helped cover the assassination of Huey Long. Walker later served as Baton Rouge correspondent and moved to the AP's Washington bureau in 1943.