Awards & Winners

John Fetterman

Date of Birth 1920
Place of Birth Danville
(Boyle County, Kentucky, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Journalist
John Fetterman was an American journalist, a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for local, general, or spot-news reporting for his 1968 story "PFC Gibson Comes Home", about the death of a soldier in Vietnam and the return of his body. It focused on the young man's family in Knott County, Kentucky and the wider community. Fetterman also contributed to a Courier-Journal series on strip mining that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

Awards by John Fetterman

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1969


Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Honored for : The Courier-Journal
([Local General or Spot News Reporting] For his article, "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home," the story of an American soldier whose body was returned to his native town from Vietnam for burial.)