Vincent Tubbs; First Black to Head Motion Picture Union

Vincent Tubbs, 72, believed the first black to ever head a motion picture union and before that a member of the small band of black journalists who covered World War II for the Afro-American press. Tubbs covered the war for black newspapers in the Baltimore area and was an editor at both Ebony and Jet magazines before moving to Los Angeles in the 1950s. He was a publicist for Warner Brothers when he succeeded to the presidency of the local chapter of the Publicists’ Guild in 1967. In Los Angeles on Sunday of an apparent heart attack.