John Filo
From Academic Kids
John Filo photographed the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl (Mary Vecchio), crying while kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings. At the time, he was a photojournalism student at Kent State University.
He continued his career in photojournalism, eventually rising to a picture editing job at the American weekly news magazine Newsweek. He now is on staff in the communications department of CBS.
At some point in the early 1970s, a copy of the famous Kent State photo in the Time-Life library had been airbrushed to remove the pole behind Vecchio. This altered image appeared in print many times from 1972 through 1995 when it was finally noticed.
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External links
- 2000 interview with John Filo at CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/4/filo/)
- Discussion of altered image (http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.filo.html)
