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For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

The Wall Street Journal , by Louis M. Kohlmeier

For his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.

The Jury

Joseph G. Harrison

Managing Editor and Chief Editorial Writer, Christian Science Monitor

W.P. Hobby, Jr.

Executive Editor and Executive Vice President, Houston Post

Gene Robb

Publisher, Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union and Knickerbocker News

Robert M. White, II

Co-Editor and Publisher, Mexico (Mo.) Ledger

Winners in National Reporting

Merriman Smith

For his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Anthony Lewis

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.

Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham

For their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.

Edward R. Cony

For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.

1965 Prize Winners