1966 Pulitzer Prize

Awards for journalism and related fields February 2025 thumb|The prize-winning cartoon, "You Mean You Were Bluffing?" thumb|"Flee to Safety", cited as an exemplary work by the prize-winning photographer The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1966. Journalism awards Public Service: The Boston Globe, for its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as a federal district judge in Massachusetts.Globe Pulitzer team effort The Boston Globe May 3, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57844642/globe-pulitzer-team-effort/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article) Local General or Spot News Reporting: Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for its coverage of the Watts Riots.'66 Pulitzer fifth for The Times since 1942 Los Angeles Times May 3, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845232/66-pulitzer-fifth-for-the-times-since/ Newspapers.com Local Investigative Specialized Reporting: John Anthony Frasca of The Tampa Tribune, for his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man.Tribune's John Frasca wins Pulitzer Prize The Tampa Tribune May 3, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845600/tribunes-john-frasca-wins-pulitzer/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article) National Reporting: Haynes Johnson of the Washington Evening Star, for his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Alabama, and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.Haynes Johnson of Washington Evening Star The Pulitzer Prizes https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/haynes-johnson 2020-08-22 International Reporting: Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, for his coverage of the Vietnam War.Peter Arnett of Associated Press The Pulitzer Prizes https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/peter-arnett 2020-08-22 Editorial Writing: Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for his distinguished editorial writing in 1965, exemplified by "The Containment of Ideas".Editorials on Viet Nam helped win Pulitzer Prize for Lasch St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 3, 1966 Donal Grant https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56559853/editorials-on-viet-nam-helped-win/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article)The Containment of Ideas St. Louis Post-Dispatch Robert Lasch January 17, 1965 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56560209/the-containment-of-ideas/ Newspapers.com Editorial Cartooning: Don Wright of The Miami News, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"Don Wright took just four years to win Pulitzer The Miami News Haines Colbert May 3, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57846231/don-wright-took-just-four-years-to-win/ Newspapers.comPulitzer winner Don Wright The Miami News May 3, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57846439/pulitzer-winner-don-wright/ Newspapers.com Photography: Kyoichi Sawada of United Press International, for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. A photo entitled "Flee to Safety", depicting a Vietnamese family wading across a river after their village was attacked, was cited as a noted example of his work.Boston newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize Quad-City Times Davenport, Iowa AP May 3, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48564932/boston-newspaper-wins-pulitzer-prize/ Newspapers.com Letters, Drama and Music Awards Fiction: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt). Drama: No award given.No Pulitzer for drama—A perceptive decision The Boston Globe Kevin Kelly May 4, 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845032/no-pulitzer-for-drama-a-perceptive/ Newspapers.com History: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (Harcourt). Biography or Autobiography: A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Houghton). Poetry: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart (New Directions). General Nonfiction: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd). Music: Variations for Orchestra by Leslie Bassett (Peters)It was first performed in the United States by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on October 22, 1965. References External links http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1966 Category:Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize