John Filo

John Filo
Filo in 2008
Born
John Paul Filo

(1948-08-21) August 21, 1948
OccupationPhotojournalism
Notable creditPulitzer Prize-winner

John Paul Filo (/ˈfl/; born August 21, 1948) is an American photographer whose picture of 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio wailing in grief while kneeling over the dead body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. Age 21 at the time, Filo was both a photojournalism student at Kent State University, and staffer of the Valley Daily News, which became the Valley News Dispatch and later a satellite paper for the Greensburg Tribune-Review.