April 23, 1971

Esther Bindursky, editor of the weekly Lepanto News Record and an award-winning journalist and photographer, died. Among her numerous awards, Bindursky won a first-place National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) award for her photo of a nun who survived a 1955 train wreck in Marked Tree (Poinsett County) that killed five people. The same photo was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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