1965 Pulitzer Prize

Awards for journalism and related fields February 2025 The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1965. Journalism awards Public Service: The Hutchinson News, for its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature, despite powerful opposition in its own community.Newspaper went to court in battle for redistricting St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 4, 1965 AP https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57843706/newspaper-went-to-court-in-battle-for/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article) Local General or Spot News Reporting: Melvin H. Ruder of the Hungry Horse News, a weekly in Columbia Falls, Montana, for his daring and resourceful coverage of a disastrous flood that threatened his community, an individual effort in the finest tradition of spot news reporting.'Can't sit back after winning,' editor of weekly observes St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 4, 1965 AP https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57843944/cant-sit-back-after-winning-editor/ Newspapers.com Local Investigative Specialized Reporting: Gene Goltz of the Houston Post, for his expose of government corruption in Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms. National Reporting: Louis M. Kohlmeier of The Wall Street Journal, for his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family. International Reporting: J. A. Livingston of the Philadelphia Bulletin, for his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West. Editorial Writing: John R. Harrison of The Gainesville Sun, for his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city. Editorial Cartooning: No award given. Photography: Horst Faas of the Associated Press, for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.Horst Faas' goal: to record the sufferings of soldiers Herald and Review Decatur, Illinois AP May 13, 1965 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57843500/horst-faas-goal-to-record-the/ Newspapers.com center A Father's Tragic Burden.jpg In the Line of Duty.jpg Vietnamese Soldier Carries Comrade.jpg View of War from Other Side.jpg South Vietnamese paratroopers drag demonstrators away.jpg A selection of Horst Faas's prize-winning photographs of the Vietnam War Letters, Drama and Music Awards Fiction: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random). Drama: The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy (Samuel French). History: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press). Biography or Autobiography: Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press). Poetry: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (Farrar). General Nonfiction: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking). Music: No award given. References External links http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1965 Category:Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize