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Passings: Jack Thornell, Who Captured Assassination Attempt on James Meredith, Dies at 86

By David Schonauer   Thursday April 30, 2026

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose 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, died on April 23. He was 86, notes the AP. In June 1966, Thornell, …

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