Explained: Photographer Chick Harrity, who documented history for AP from Vietnam to the White House, has died

Photographer Chick Harrity died at age 87.

White House press corps

The group of journalists regularly assigned to cover the U.S. president and White House.

Paris Peace Accords

The 1973 agreement intended to end the Vietnam War.

Air National Guard

A U.S. military reserve force component in which Harrity served.