Photographer Steps Forward After 26 Years to Claim Pulitzer Prize [DP]

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DEBORAH AMOS
Morning Edition (NPR)
12-08-2006
Photographer Steps Forward After 26 Years to Claim Pulitzer Prize [DP]

Host: DEBORAH AMOS
Time 10:00-11:00 AM

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DEBORAH AMOS, host:

A photographer is claiming a Pulitzer Prize 27 years after he took the photograph that won it. The photograph was first published in 1979. It showed a firing squad in the midst of the revolution in Iran. In that picture, you see the instant that a row of blindfolded men crumpled over from the shots all except one blindfolded man who is still standing.

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

The image gave the world an early ...

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