John Filo
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John Paul Filo August 21, 1948 Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Photojournalism |
| Notable credit(s) | Pulitzer Prize-winner |
John Paul Filo (born August 21, 1948) is a photographer whose picture of 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio screaming while kneeling over the dead body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings, won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. 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 National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. At the time John Filo was in the University student photography lab when the shots rang out. He quickly ran outside and below recalls what happened:
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