A look back at Pulitzer Prize winning photographs from The Associated Press
On May 4, 2020, The Associated Press was awarded its 32nd Pulitzer Prize for photography.
This gallery features a selection of AP’s Pulitzer Prize photography, as either single winning images or individual photos from a winning series, from global events such as the Korean War and the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan to daily news such as a hotel fire in Atlanta in 1946 and a truck accident in California in 1953.
Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War, March 17, 1973. In the lead is Stirm's daughter Lori, 15; followed by son Robert, 14; daughter Cynthia, 11; wife Loretta and son Roger, 12. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)
An Indian sailor pleads for water from a lifeboat adrift on the Indian Ocean in January 1942. AP photographer Frank Noel shot this photo from his own lifeboat after a Japanese torpedo sank a ship carrying Noel, the sailors and others from Singapore. Noel and his fellow survivors eventually reached Sumatra. (AP Photo/Frank Noel)
Mukti Bahini soldiers hold their hands out in prayer to Allah before the torture and execution of four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war, Dec. 18, 1971. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, Michel Laurent)
A Palestinian woman brandishes helmets during a memorial service in Beirut September 27, 1982, for victims of Lebanon's Sabra refugee camp massacre. She claimed the helmets were worn by those who massacred hundreds of her countrymen. (AP Photo/Bill Foley)
Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy, early Saturday morning, April 22, 2000, in Miami. Armed federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives before dawn Saturday, firing tear gas into an angry crowd as they left the scene with the weeping 6-year-old boy. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
A Viet Cong guerrilla, captured by Vietnamese Rangers, crawls from a jungle entrenchment during a government assault 30 miles northwest of Saigon, January, 1964. The Rangers accompanied by U.S. advisers, were trapped for six hours after they had overrun the guerrilla foxholes but escaped into the jungle losing four killed and 17 wounded, including a U.S. sergeant. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
Heavily armed African American students leave Straight Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on April 20, 1969. The students had barricaded themselves in the building led by Ed Whitfield, far right, demanding a degree-granting African American Studies program. After a 36 hour sit-in, university administrators offered to drop some charges against the students and accelerate the opening of an African-American Studies center. (AP Photo/Steve Starr)
Civil rights activist James Meredith grimaces in pain as he pulls himself across Highway 51 after being shot in Hernando, Miss., June 6, 1966. Meredith was leading the March Against Fear to encourage African Americans to exercise their voting rights when he was shot. He completed the march from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., after treatment of his wounds. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)
U.S. President Ronald Reagan winces and raises his left arm as he was shot by an assailant as he left a Washington hotel, Monday, March 30, 1981, after making a speech to a labor group. The President was shot in the upper left side. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Refugees carrying water containers make their way back to their huts at the Benaco Refugee Camp in Tanzania, near the Rwandan border, East Africa, Tuesday, May 17, 1994. Benaco, with a population surpassing 300,000, is the largest refugee settlement in the world. Aid agencies are having difficulty feeding, doctoring and sheltering refugees who are fleeing the ethnic bloodbath in neighboring Rwanda. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker)
Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border on Aug. 20, 1994. As new, independent African nations, Rwanda and Burundi have experienced a succession of ethnic slaughter. For years, majority Hutus and minority Tutsis lived peaceably, side by side, only to explode in homicidal violence in which 500,000 people, most of them Tutsi, were massacred. Millions of other Rwandans fled as refugees. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
Rescue workers carry Susan Francisca Murianki, a U.S. Embassy office worker, over the rubble of a collapsed building next to the embassy, Friday, Aug. 7, 1998 in Nairobi, Kenya. Terrorist bombs exploded minutes apart outside the U.S. embassies in the Kenyan and Tanzanian capitals Friday. Americans were among the dead, and the U.S. ambassador to Kenya was injured, the State Department said. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
Thousands of Kenyans mourn and pray at the Uhuru Park in Nairobi Sunday, Aug. 9, 1998, for the victims of the bombing of the U.S. embassy on Friday, Aug. 7. A car bomb detonated Friday near the embassy killing at least 190 and wounding more than 4,000. (AP Photos/Sayyid Azim)
A distraught Soviet woman is held back by two men as she cries, "Oh my Lord, why the tanks? People, stop the tanks," and as she struggles to stand in front of a tank passing on the street near the Ukraine Hotel in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. (AP Photo/Olga Shalygin)
Russian President Boris Yeltsin dances at a rock concert after arriving in Rostov, Monday, June 10, 1996. A new poll gives President Yeltsin his biggest lead yet, over Communist challenger Gennnady Zyganov in the Russian presidential election. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Gov. Bill Clinton, sitting with the band, turns out an impressive version of "Heartbreak Hotel" as Arsenio Hall gestures approvingly in the musical opening of "The Arsenio Hall Show" taping at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, June 3, 1992. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton addresses the media as U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, D-Mass., looks on at a Boston campaign stop the evening of April 28, 1992. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)