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Photographer, Who Captured Pulitzer Prize Winning Image of Assassination Attempt on James Meredith, Dies

Photographer, Who Captured Pulitzer Prize Winning Image of Assassination Attempt on James Meredith, Dies

A man in a plaid shirt and dark pants crawls on hands and knees across a sidewalk, with grass and trees in the background. Two people sit in the distance on the left side of the image.

Jack Thornell, the Associated Press photographer whose picture of an assassination attempt on civil rights activist James Meredith in 1966 won a Pulitzer Prize, has died.

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