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Spot News Photography

Year
Winners
Finalists

Photo Staff of Associated Press

For its portfolio of images following the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that illustrates both the horror and the humanity triggered by the event.

Charles Porter IV

For his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman.

Paul Watson of The Toronto Star

For his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.

Staff of Associated Press

For photographs of the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime.

Greg Marinovich of Associated Press

For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.

Ron Olshwanger

For a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.

Jahangir Razmi of Ettela'at, Iran

For the photograph "Firing Squad in Iran" that was distributed by United Press International. The photographer remained anonymous until his identity was revealed, with his consent, by Josh Prager of The Wall Street Journal in 2006.

Thomas J. Kelly III of Pottstown (PA) Mercury

For a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road."
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John H. Blair of United Press International

For a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint.
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Stanley Forman of Boston Herald American

For his photograph of a youth using the flag as a lance in street disorders.

Neal Ulevich of Associated Press

For a series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok.
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Stanley Forman of Boston Herald American

For his sequence of photographs of a fire in Boston on July 22, 1975.
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Gerald H. Gay of The Seattle Times

For his photograph of four exhausted firemen, "Lull in the Battle."
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Anthony K. Roberts

For his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an alleged kidnapper was killed.
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Huynh Cong Ut of Associated Press

For his photograph, "The Terror of War," depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing.
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Horst Faas and Michel Laurent of Associated Press

For their picture series, "Death in Dacca."
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John Paul Filo of Valley Daily News and Daily Dispatch, Tarentum and New Kensington, PA

For his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970.
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Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany (NY) Bureau

For his news photo taken at Cornell University, "Campus Guns."
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Edward T. Adams of Associated Press

For his photograph, "Saigon Execution."
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Rocco Morabito of Jacksonville Journal

For his photograph, "The Kiss of Life."
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