Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nick Ut was in Washington on Wednesday to accept the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and art patrons. A day later he was randomly attacked on the street.
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Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nick Ut (70) was in Washington on Wednesday to accept the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and art patrons. He is the first journalist to receive the presidential award.
On Thursday, he was walking to dinner when he was randomly attacked on the street,
WRC reported.
“I really don’t see that guy tackle me last night, and I hear yelling, but too late for me, and he punched me already.”
The attacker was quickly surrounded and taken into custody by Secret Service police.