Mary Ann Vecchio is an Italian American respiratory therapist and one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Mary Ann Vecchio speaking at Kent State University in May 2009
Vecchio, photographed by John Filo kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller. May 4, 1970. In this widely circulated version of the photo, a fencepost behind Vecchio has been airbrushed out.
Vecchio, pictured hugging her three-year-old sister, Sharon, following her return to Opa-locka, Florida, on May 24, 1970.
Mary Ann Vecchio meets John Filo at Kent State University in May 2009, 39 years after the shootings.
John Paul Filo is an American photographer whose picture of 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio screaming while kneeling over the dead body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings, won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. 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 is now a satellite paper for the Greensburg Tribune-Review.
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Mary Ann Vecchio meeting John Filo at Kent State University, May 2009
