John Paul Filo (born August 21, 1948) took the 1970 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl (Mary Ann Vecchio), screaming while kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings. At the time, Filo was both a photojournalism student at Kent State University, and staffer of a satellite paper for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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John Paul Filo (born August 21, 1948) took the 1970 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl (Mary Ann Vecchio), screaming while kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings. At the time, Filo was both a photojournalism student at Kent State University, and staffer of a satellite paper for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize while working for the Valley Daily News (a Gannett paper) of the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, he continued his career in photojournalism, rapidly finding work at the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and as a picture editor at the Baltimore Evening Sun. He eventually rose to a picture editing job at the weekly news magazine Newsweek. He now is on staff in the communications department of CBS.
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio...
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