Boston Herald 's first Pulitzer Prize was of a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother 's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below .
Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977 , the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother 's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below and the latter being of Ted Landsmark , an African American city official , being beaten with an American flag during Boston 's school busing crisis.
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