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1965 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1965.

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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.
  • Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • Melvin H. Ruder of 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.
  • 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 Associated Press, for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.

    • 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 Non-Fiction:
  • O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking).
  • Music:
  • No award given.

    • References

    1965 Pulitzer Prize Wikipedia
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