Jack Thornell, AP photographer who captured assassination attempt on James Meredith, dies at 86
- Posted on April 24, 2026
- By The Toronto Star
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Jack Thornell, AP photographer who captured assassination attempt on James Meredith, dies at 86

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in