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Person of the Day | Jack Thornell, AP Photographer Who Captured Assassination Attempt on James Meredith, Dies at 86

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 Thursday at a hospital in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie from complications from kidney disease.

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