Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a book showing a 1945 photo of him as a Stars and Stripes correspondent in Shanghai, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024. Credit ...

Audrey McAvoy Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a book showing a 1945 photo of him as a Stars and Stripes correspondent in Shanghai, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024.

Becker served as an Associated Press bureau chief in Manila, New Delhi and Honolulu and covered Margaret Thatcher as a freelance journalist in London. But he said his most important story was ...

Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut in 1947, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Audrey ...

Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a photo album showing a 1947 photo of him as an AP reporter, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024.

Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut in 1947, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Audrey ...