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John Filo (John Paul Filo) was born on 21 August, 1948 in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, United States, is an American photographer (born 1948). Discover John Filo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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John Paul Filo |
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Photojournalism |
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75 years old |
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Leo |
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21 August, 1948 |
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21 August |
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Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, United States |
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United States
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John Filo Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is John Filo worth at the age of 75 years old? John Filo’s income source is mostly from being a successful photographer. He is from United States. We have estimated John Filo's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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John Paul Filo (born August 21, 1948) 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.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize while working for the Valley Daily News (a Gannett paper) of the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, he continued his career in photojournalism, rapidly finding work at the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and as a picture editor at the Baltimore Evening Sun.
He eventually rose to a picture editing job at the weekly news magazine Newsweek.
He is now head of photography for CBS.
The Kent State shooting by members of the Ohio National Guard occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio on May 4, 1970, and resulted in the deaths of four students.
At the time John Filo was in the university student photography lab when the shots rang out.
He quickly ran outside and below recalls what happened:
"The bullets were supposed to be blanks. When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, 'I'll get a picture of this,' and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree.
I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition.
I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity ... I started to flee – run down the hill and stopped myself.
'Where are you going?' I said to myself, 'This is why you are here!'
And I started to take pictures again.
... I knew I was running out of film.
I could see the emotion welling up inside of her.
And it culminated in her saying an exclamation.
I can't remember what she said exactly ...
something like, 'Oh, my God!'"
To take the picture Filo used a Nikkormat camera with Tri-X film and most of the exposures were 1/500 between 5.6 and f 8 depending on whether the sun was behind a cloud or not.
In the early 1970s, an anonymous editor airbrushed the fence post above Mary Ann Vecchio's head out of Filo's Pulitzer Prize Winner photograph.
Since then, the altered photo has circulated and has been reprinted in many magazines.
Numerous publications, including Time (Nov. 6, 1972, p. 23; Jan. 7, 1980, p. 45) and People (May 2, 1977, p. 37; April 30, 1990, p. 117), have used the altered image without knowing it.
In 1995, Filo met Mary Ann Vecchio for the first time, when both were scheduled to appear at an Emerson College conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of the shootings.
The two met again on the Kent State University campus, at the 39th commemoration in May 2009, where they both spoke.