The Dallas Morning News, by Staff
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents The Dallas Morning News photographers (left to right) Irwin Thompson, Smiley Pool and Michael Ainsworth with the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.
Winning Work
Kenner, LA -- Hurricane Katrina made landfall with a vengeance, wrenching the roof off Backyard Bar B Que, 10 miles west of New Orleans. (Irwin Thompson, August 29, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Highways, homes and buildings were swamped by water in a view of storm damage looking east toward downtown. (Smiley N. Pool, August 30, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Dejon Fisher, 8, waited fearfully with Cavel Fisher Clay, 33, and Alexis Fisher, 14, in a hostile line for busses to the Houston Astrodome. (Michael Ainsworth, September 1, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- A patchwork of roofs push through the floodwaters east of downtown, one day after Hurricane Katrina's march through the Crescent City. Floodwaters left the city a horific mix of struggling humanity and swamped infrastructure. (Smiley N. Pool, August 30, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Jeremiah Ward got by on makeshift shoes after he was rescued in the Ninth Ward. Many storm evacuees had to flee without crucial possessions. (Irwin Thompson, August 30, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Ibry Smith (right) fell as he helped Norma Rankins out of a boat after they were rescued from a nursing home in the Ninth Ward. (Irwin Thompson, August 30, 2005)
Biloxi, MS -- Tam Cu, Jason Jackson and Linda Bryant looked for belongings from Ms. Bryant's home which was destroyed by the storm. (Barbara Davidson, August 31, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Police searched a man accused of looting on Interstate 10. They found beer in his bag. (Irwin Thompson, August 31, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- People wandered along Interstate 10 near the Superdome. Amid dire predictions, authorities decided to try to empty the city and move residents from the Superdome to shelters in Dallas and Houston in a two-day caravan of busses. (Irwin Thompson, August 31, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Tossed together by crisis, 81-year-old Louis Jones (left) and 62-year-old Catherine McZeal join forces to navigate Poydras Street in their trek to the Superdome and a chance at evacuation. (Michael Ainsworth, September 1, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Residents sent out a desperate plea for help as they waited to be rescued from the roof of an apartment complex. (Smiley N. Pool, September 1, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Texas National Guardsman SPC. Brian Jimenez of Richardson, Texas, was fully armed as he and his North Texas platoon searched for survivors in an area west of downtown. (Tom Fox, September 1, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Evacuees at the Superdome argued in the tangled line for a bus trip to the Houston Astrodome. All over New Orleans, tempers flared as thousands waited for a way out of town, "This is a desperate SOS." -- Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans. (Michael Ainsworth, September 1, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Friends gave 41-year-old Dana Clark a drink and moved her into the shade after she fainted outside Morial Convention Center. (Irwin Thompson, September 2, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Memorial Medical Center nurse, Mary Jo D'Amico, fanned a patient waiting in the hospital's parking garage for helicopter transport from New Orleans. (Brad Loper, September 1, 2005)
Chalmette, LA -- Fire and rescue team members from Vancouver, Canada, carried an elderly woman to a medical tent after she was evacuated. Surrounded by several family members, the woman died moments later. (Michael Ainsworth, September 3, 2005)
Biloxi, MS -- Eddie Mae Smith, 75, collapsed in her home, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina and infested with mold and mildew. Bishop Nelson came to check on Ms. Smith and found her in dire condition. Nelson said he needed trailers for people such as Ms. Smith, who can't wait for FEMA aid. (Michael Mulvey, September 11, 2005)
Dallas, TX -- Tracey Nolan lost track of her seven-month-old son, A'Mahd MaGee, when she was forced to leave for Dallas. A'Mahd had been visiting with a family friend when the storm hit New Orleans, and floodwaters prevented Ms. Nolan from reaching her child before she had to be evacuated by helicopter on August 30th. (Melanie Burford, September 2, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Hungry dogs fed on a corpse washed up at the edge of receding floodwaters. (Smiley N. Pool, September 4, 2005)
New Orleans, LA -- Kimi Seymour, 27, took a break from pushing her few remaining possessions along Interstate 10. (Irwin Thompson, September 1, 2005)