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Year:

1955

Award:

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

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For his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program.

Award Winner:

Roland Kenneth Towery

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