New York World-Telegram and Sun , by Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood
For their reporting of an air crash in Jamaica Bay, killing 95 persons on March 1, 1962.
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.