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| PUBLIC SERVICE | St. Petersburg (Florida) Times For its aggressive investigation of the Florida Turnpike Authority which disclosed widespread illegal acts and resulted in a major reorganization of the State's road construction program. | |
| LOCAL GENERAL OR SPOT NEWS REPORTING | Norman C. Miller, Jr. of Wall Street Journal For his comprehensive account of a multi-million dollar vegetable oil swindle in New Jersey. | |
| LOCAL INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALIZED REPORTING | James V. Magee and Albert V. Gaudiosi, reporters and Frederick Meyer, photographer of Philadelphia Bulletin For their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department. | |
| NATIONAL REPORTING | Merriman Smith of United Press International For his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. | |
| INTERNATIONAL REPORTING | Malcolm W. Browne and David Halberstam of Associated Press and New York Times (respectively) For their individual reporting of the Viet Nam war and the overthrow of the Diem regime. | |
| EDITORIAL WRITING | Hazel Brannon Smith of Lexington (Miss.) Advertiser For steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition. | |
| EDITORIAL CARTOONING | Paul Conrad of The Denver Post For his editorial cartooning during the past year | |
| PHOTOGRAPHY | Robert H. Jackson of Dallas Times-Herald For his photograph of the murder of Lee Oswald by Jack Ruby. | |
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| FICTION | (No Award) | |
| DRAMA | (No Award) | |
| HISTORY | Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press) | |
| BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ. Press) | |
| POETRY | At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press) | |
| GENERAL NON-FICTION | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random) | |
| MUSIC | (No Award) | |
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| SPECIAL AWARDS AND CITATIONS - JOURNALISM | Gannett Newspapers A special citation for their program, "The Road To Integration," a distinguished example of the use of a newspaper group's resources to complement the work of its individual newspapers. | |