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

United Press International , by Merriman Smith

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

The Jury

Arthur C. Deck

Executive Editor, Salt Lake Tribune

Martin S. Hayden

Editor, Detroit News

Norman E. Isaacs

Executive Editor, Courier-Journal & Louisville Times

Henry MacLeod

Managing Editor, Seattle Times

John Strohmeyer*

Editor, Bethlehem Globe-Times, Bethlehem, Pa.

Winners in National Reporting

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.

Vance Trimble

For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States.

1964 Prize Winners

No author named

A special citation for their program, "The Road To Integration," a distinguished example of the use of a newspaper group's resources to complement the work of its individual newspapers.