(23 Nov 2014) VOICE OVER:
FORMER DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MAYOR MARION BARRY DIED SUNDAY MORNING.
BARRY'S FOUR TERMS SERVED AS MAYOR WERE OVERSHADOWED BY HIS 1990 ARREST AFTER BEING CAUGHT ON VIDEOTAPE SMOKING CRACK COCAINE.
A BARRY D.C. COUNCIL SPOKESPERSON SAID HE DIED SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY AT A HOSPITAL IN WASHINGTON.
HE HAD BATTLED KIDNEY PROBLEMS STEMMING FROM DIABETES AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND UNDERWENT A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT IN FEBRUARY 2009.
HE WAS 78.
SALIM ESSAID, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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