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La Republica , by Hector Rondon

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.

The Jury

Charles O. Kilpatrick

Executive Editor, San Antonio Express and News

Michael J. Ogden

Executive Editor, Providence Journal and Bulletin

Vermont C. Royster*

Editor, Wall Street Journal

Winners in Photography

Paul Vathis

For the photograph, "Serious Steps," published April 22, 1961.

Yasushi Nagao

For his photograph, "Tokyo Stabbing," distributed by United Press International and widely printed in American newspapers.

Andrew Lopez

For his series of four photographs of a corporal, formerly of Dictator Batista's army, who was executed by a Castro firing squad, the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites.

William Seaman

For his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

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!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.