Oscar Griffin, Jr. of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise, who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes.[2]
Anthony LewisofThe New York Times, for his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.
Ira B. Harkey Jr. editor and publisher of the Pascagoula Chronicle, for his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.
Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register, for a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said—We sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"
Hector Rondon, photographer of Caracas, for the Venezuelan newspaper, La Republica, for his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 El Porteñazo insurrection in Venezuela: "Aid From The Padre". The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press.[4]
