Veteran Shreveport Journalist Passes Away

The Shreveport Times reports longtime Shreveport journalist Jim Montgomery passed away.  The article says Montgomery served as a newscaster and reporter for KTBS/Channel 3 in 1968.  After leaving Channel 3 Montgomery served as editor of a couple of publications in Shreveport and served as executive director of the Beaird Foundation, the philanthropic and charitable organization founded by the late Charles T. Beaird, Shreveport financier, capitalist, philanthropist and former Shreveport Journal publisher.