•
1968:
Rocco Morabito,
Jacksonville Journal, for his photograph of telephone linemen, "
The Kiss of Life". •
1969:
Edward T. Adams,
Associated Press, for his photograph, "
Saigon Execution". •
1970:
Steve Starr,
Associated Press, for his news photo taken at
Cornell University, "
Campus Guns". •
1971:
John Paul Filo,
Valley Daily News/Daily Dispatch, of the
Pittsburgh suburbs of
Tarentum and
New Kensington, for his pictorial coverage of the
Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970. •
1972:
Horst Faas and
Michel Laurent,
Associated Press, for their picture series, "Death in Dacca". •
1973:
Huynh Cong Ut,
Associated Press, for his photograph,
The Terror of War (or
Napalm Girl), depicting children in flight from a
napalm bombing. •
1974:
Anthony K. Roberts, a freelance photographer of
Beverly Hills, California, for his picture series, "
Fatal Hollywood Drama", in which an alleged kidnapper was killed. •
1975:
Gerald H. Gay,
Seattle Times, for his photograph of four exhausted firefighters (l to r: Joe Guild, Tom Gudmestad, Chris Kitterman and Jim Flick), "
Lull in the Battle". •
1976:
Stanley Forman,
Boston Herald-American, for his sequence of photographs of a fire in
Boston, including "
Fire Escape Collapse", on July 22, 1975. •
1977: Stanley Forman,
Boston Herald-American, for his photograph
The Soiling of Old Glory, which depicts Joseph Rakes attacking
Theodore Landsmark — using an
American flag as a lance — during a
desegregation busing demonstration at
Boston City Hall. •
1977:
Neal Ulevich, of the
Associated Press, for a series of photographs of
disorder and brutality in the streets of
Bangkok. •
1978:
John Blair, special assignment photographer for
United Press International, for
a photograph of a broker held hostage at gunpoint by
Tony Kiritsis. •
1979:
Thomas J. Kelly III,
Pottstown Mercury, Pennsylvania, for a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road". It is of a man, Richard G., who was holding his wife and daughter hostage as he was running from the police. •
1980: Anonymous, ''
Ettela'at'',
United Press International, for "
Firing Squad in Iran". In 2006, the photographer's identity was revealed to be
Jahangir Razmi. •
1981:
Larry C. Price,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, for his photographs from
Liberia. •
1982:
Ron Edmonds,
Associated Press, for his coverage of the
Reagan assassination attempt. •
1983:
Bill Foley,
Associated Press, for his series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the
Sabra Camp in
Beirut. •
1984:
Stan Grossfeld,
Boston Globe, for his series of photographs which reveal the effects of
war on the people of
Lebanon. •
1985: Photography staff,
Register,
Santa Ana, California, for their coverage of the
Olympic Games. •
1986:
Carol Guzy and
Michel du Cille,
Miami Herald, for their photographs of
the devastation caused by the eruption of the
Nevado del Ruiz volcano in
Colombia. •
1987:
Kim Komenich,
San Francisco Examiner, for his photographic coverage of the fall of
Ferdinand Marcos. •
1988:
Scott Shaw,
Odessa American, for his photograph of the child
Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen. •
1989:
Ron Olshwanger, a
freelance photographer, for a picture published in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building. •
1990: Photo staff of the
Oakland Tribune,
California, for their photographs of devastation caused by the
Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989. The
Oakland Tribune team consisted of Tom Duncan, Angela Pancrazio, Pat Greenhouse, Reginald Pearman, Matthew Lee, Gary Reyes, Michael Macor, Ron Riesterer, Paul Miller, Roy H. Williams. •
1991:
Greg Marinovich,
Associated Press, for a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's
African National Congress murdering a man they believed to be a
Zulu spy. •
1992: Staff,
Associated Press, for photographs of
the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the
Communist regime. •
1993:
Ken Geiger and
William Snyder,
Dallas Morning News, for their photographs of the
1992 Summer Olympics in
Barcelona. •
1994:
Paul Watson,
Toronto Star, for his photograph, published around the world, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged by
Somalis through the streets of
Mogadishu. •
1995:
Carol Guzy,
Washington Post, for her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in
Haiti and its aftermath. •
1996:
Charles Porter IV, a freelancer, for his photographs taken after the
Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the
Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim (Baylee Almon) handed to and then cradled by a fireman. •
1997:
Annie Wells,
Press Democrat,
Santa Rosa, California, for her photograph of a firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters. •
1998:
Martha Rial,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for her portraits of survivors of the
conflicts in Rwanda and
Burundi. •
1999: Staff,
Associated Press, for its portfolio of images following
the embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania. ==List of winners for Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography==