North Carolina Photographer Who Captured The '60's for Time Magazine Dies

A Salisbury native whose photographs for Time Magazine documented the 1960's has died. 

Ben Martin died at his home in Salisbury February 10th, according to his former wife and publishing partner Kathryn Leigh Scott.

Martin began working as a photographer at the Salisbury Post when he was just 15. He was hired by Time Magazine in 1957, becoming one of its first full-time staff photographers.

Martin helped immortalize Richard Nixon's haggard 5 o'clock shadow during his debate with John F. Kennedy.

Martin also later photographed JFK's grieving widow and children, and documented Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s march to Montgomery, Alabama.

Ben Martin was 86.