The Independent
The Independent

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AP photographer Jack Thornell's iconic images of civil rights and beyond

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell 's Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement.
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