Jack Thornell, Pulitzer-winning AP photographer, dies at 86

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Jack Thornell, an Associated Press photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing James Meredith’s agony after being shot on a Mississippi highway in the spring of 1966, died on April 23 in Metairie, Louisiana. He was 86.

His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son, Jay.

Mr. Thornell’s image of Mr. Meredith, the integration pioneer who had broken the color line at the University of Mississippi, sprawled on U.S. Highway 51, summed up an era’s brutal racial confrontations.

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