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University Dairy Kansan Tuesday, May 5, 1964
White House Reporter Receives Pulitzer Prize for JFK Story
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Merriman Smith, United Press International White House reporter, yesterday won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy.
(Stories by Smith were run in the University Daily Kansan beginning with the first dispatches on the day of the assassination.)
Smith, 51-year-old veteran White House reporter, won the prize in national reporting "for his outstanding coverage of the assassination."
Smith was on the scene for every historic turn of the day of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, on the plane for the swearing-in of President Johnson, and wrote his prize-winning dispatch in Washington that night for the next day's newspapers.
THE 1964 PRIZES, awarded by the trustees of Columbia University, were announced by Columbia President Grayson Kirk.
The award for international reporting was awarded jointly to Malcolm W. Browne of the Associated Press and David Halberstam of The New York Times for their individual reporting of the Viet Nam war and the overthrow of the Diem regime.
The award for meritorious public service went to the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times "for its aggressive investigation of the Florida Turpike Authority which disclosed widespread illegal acts and resulted in a major reorganization of the state's read construction program."
A SPECIAL CITATION went to the Gannett newspapers for their program, "The Road to Integration." This was cited as a distinguished example of the use of a newspaper group's resources to complement the work of its individual newspapers.
The series run by the Gannett papers sought out and reported racial success stories in many cities. Norman C. Miller of the Wall Street Journal won the award for a distinguished example of local general or spot news reporting for a comprehensive account of a multi-million-dollar vegetable oil swindle in New Jersey.
THE AWARD FOR local reporting of an investigative or special nature went to James V. Magee, Albert V. Gauzios, and Frederick A. Meyer of The Philadelphia Bulletin. This was for their expose of numbers rackets operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, resulting in arrests and police department cleanup.
The prize for distinguished editorial writing went to Hazel Brannon Smith of The Lexington (Miss). Advertiser "for steadfast adherence to her editorial duties in the face of great pressure and opposition."
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Mrs. Smith was awarded the editorial writing prize for the whole volume of her work during the year. She purchased the Lexington Advertiser, a weekly, in 1943 and began launching editorial attacks against racketeers, gamblers and political corruption. She has won many awards, including one for an editorial protesting the arrest of a bomb victim.
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THE HOME OF a Negro farmer had been fire bombed and when he and his family ran from the house, the farmer was shot at and arrested for supposedly fire bombing his own home.
The award for editorial cartooning went to Paul Conrad of The Denver Post—now on the staff of The Los Angeles Times—for his distinctive
work during the entire year rather than for any one cartoon.
The award for news photography went to Robert H. Jackson of The Dallas Times Herald for his photograph of the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, taken just as the bullet entered the alleged presidential assassin's body.
SMITHS ACCOUNT of what he saw and heard last Nov. 22 was called by Earl J. Johnson, editor and vice president of UPI, "an example of lean and factual news service journalism by a top craftsman reporting and writing with the wind of the world in his face."
Johnson added: "It might have been said of Merriman Smith at noon on Nov. 22 that he had been everywhere and seen everything in 22 years as White House reporter for UPI. But his greatest test of professional skill and physical endurance was to come in the next few hours.
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All those interested report to room 203 Robinson at 4:30 Tuesday, May 5. The course will be open to boys and girls.
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