A Kentuckian who had a gift for helping people in a diverse state understand each other, and for making specific people and events seem universal, John Fetterman was best known for writing one of the most deeply felt domestic stories of the Vietnam War, “Pfc. Gibson Comes Home.” The 1968 Courier-Journal Magazine story and photos about a community’s farewells to a casualty won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. In 1967, he published the book Stinking Creek and shared in the C-J Pulitzer won for public service with its campaign to control strip mining. As editor of The Louisville Times’ Scene magazine, he put his stamp on a generation of young reporters, teaching them interviewing and writing skills: listening, watching, and thinking. Born in Danville, he was a graduate of Murray State University. He died in 1975.