Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise , by Oscar Griffin, Jr.
Who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes.
Prize Winners
Frank Miller
For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"
Ira B. Harkey
For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.