Jack Thornell, Pulitzer Winning A.P. Photographer, Dies

He captured one of the most wrenching moments of the civil rights struggle: the agony of James Meredith after he was shot on a Mississippi highway.Jack Thornhill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showing the civil rights activist James Meredith on the ground after being shot in Hernando, Miss., on June 6, 1966. He is looking at the man who shot him, hiding in the woods.