Comments on: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, 1968-1999

By: Renton

Renton — Sun, 06 Nov 2025 13:57:00 +0000

Jim Waller you’re are wrong. Ted Landsmark says that Rakes was swinging the flag at him, not trying to spear him as it appears in the photo. I don’t know what you saw there, but Ladndsmark testimony denied yours.

By: Stephane Adam

Stephane Adam — Tue, 20 Sep 2025 12:52:48 +0000

La photo-qui-raconte. Fabuleux !

By: Jim Waller

Jim Waller — Tue, 13 Sep 2025 21:02:34 +0000

Regarding the picture of “a youth using a flag as a lance in street disorders” — that was shot in Boston on the day of the American Bicentennial, July 4, 1976. I was there that day. The photo captures a white Bostonian attacking a black Bostonian with an American flag. It was an act of outrageous racism, so bald that the photographer was awarded a Pulitzer prize for it.

By: Bella

Bella — Thu, 04 Aug 2025 02:16:53 +0000

Makes you appreciate how lucky you are and all the things that you think are bad in ur life seem less then a mere spec on the scheme of things …. looking at these photos (although fantastic photography) made my heart hurt ….

ps. thank you to wish for finding the answers to the questions that were going through my head

By: raha

raha — Thu, 07 Jul 2025 09:17:42 +0000

dear wish
thank you so much for ur comment

By: Wish

Wish — Mon, 20 Jun 2025 17:18:52 +0000

It’s like a punch in the gut to see some of these photos, especially involving children.

After doing some poking around the interwebs I found that the telephone lineman in the 1968 photo recovered, the young girl from the Sanatoga Rd Tragedy lived, and the toddler in the fire escape collapse survived; (her fall was broken by the woman falling with her, who died).

Sadly, little Baylee from the OK City bombing died from her injuries. Two year old Patricia died 6 days after her rescue (1989 photo by Olshwanger).