Mary Ann Vecchio

'Mary Ann Vecchio (now Gillum) was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism-student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4th 1970.

The photograph showed the 14-year-old Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller who had been shot by the Ohio National Guard moments earlier.

A runaway from Opa Locka, Florida, Vecchio bartered her story to a local reporter, in exchange for a bus ticket to California - though she was found by police before she boarded the bus, and was sent back to her family.

After marrying Joe Gillum, the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where Vecchio became a clerk at a local coffee shop.

In 1995 she met with John Filo for the first time since the photograph, when they were both scheduled to appear at a Emerson College conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of the massacre.[1]