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1963 Pulitzer Prizes

Journalism

Category
Winners
Finalists

Chicago Daily News

For calling public attention to the issue of providing birth control services in the public health programs in its area.
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Anthony Lewis of The New York Times

For his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.
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Hal Hendrix of The Miami (FL) News

For his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft.
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Ira B. Harkey of Pascagoula (MS) Chronicle

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.
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Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood of New York World-Telegram and Sun

For their reporting of an air crash in Jamaica Bay, killing 95 persons on March 1, 1962.
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Oscar Griffin, Jr. of Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise

Who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes.
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Frank Miller of Des Moines Register

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"
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Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas, Venezuela

For his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 Venezuelan insurrection: "Aid From The Padre." The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press.
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