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Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Kent State Coverage
The 1971 Pulitzers honored Kent State campus tragedy reporting by Akron Beacon Journal staff and photographer John Paul Filo. Other winners included Diana Oughton backgrounder by United Press International, Winston-Salem Journal environmental reporting, and South Africa tale by Jimmie Hoagland of the Washington Post.
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New York
Kent State University
Ohio National Guardsmen
Akron
Ohio
Beacon Journal
John Paul Filo
Paul Zindel
Mr Sammier
Saul Bellow
Eudora Welty
Joyce Carol Oates
Akron Beast Con Journal
Robert H. Giles
Knight Newspaper
Lucinda Franks
Thomas Powers
United Press International
Diana Oughton
Greenwich Village
Winston-Salem
N.C
Journal and Sentinel
North Carolina
Jimmie Lee Hoagland
Washington Post
South Africa
Ben Bradlee
Post
William Jones
The
Chicago Tribune
City Plain Commission
Midam
Butler County
Onio
Commission Chamber
University Baptist Church of Middletown
University Baptist Church
Riverview
Spencer Lane
Middletown
R. Paul Christiansen