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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Wilmott ‘Rags’ Ragsdale, dies at 97

Wilmott “Rags” Ragsdale, a war correspondent and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who taught a generation of journalism students in the 1960s and â??70s, died last month at age 97.

Ragsdale told students to “be bold” in their reporting, said his daughter Amy Ragsdale. That same philosophy led him to London during World War II, where he covered D-Day, landing on Omaha Beach on the second day of the invasion.