Former AP reporter Jules Loh, who covered the odd, offbeat and momentous for AP, dies at 79

Former AP reporter, features writer Jules Loh dies

NEW YORK — Jules Loh, a reporter for four decades with The Associated Press whose folksy prose enlivened everything from space shots to political conventions and brought readers the odd and offbeat stories from farflung corners of the United States, has died. He was 79.

Loh also covered both Kennedy assassinations, key events in the civil rights movement, earthquakes and other momentous stories during his peripatetic career, always delivering fast, readable prose.

Loh joined the AP in 1959 in Louisville, Ky. Within a year he was reassigned to New York, where he eventually became a member of a small band of feature writers dubbed the “Poets’ Corner.”

The team in the AP Newsfeatures department specialized in long, often colorfully written articles.

Loh retired in 1997.