LOS ANGELES - Roger Terry, whose conviction for "jostling" a superior was reversed 50 years after he and other Tuskegee Airmen attempted to enter a whites-only officer's club, died Thursday. He was 87.

Theodore Lumpkin, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the World War II black fighters unit, said Terry died of heart failure at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center.

An army lieutenant and bomber pilot, Terry and more than 100 black officers were arrested in April 1945 for refusing a general's demand they sign papers admitting they were wrong for protesting the segregated club at Freeman Field, a military airfield near Seymour, Ind.

Terry was court-martialed, convicted of "jostling" a white officer and dishonorably discharged.

In 1995, the U.S. military exonerated Terry. He was among 300 Tuskegee Airmen who received the congressional Gold Medal in 1997.