 He is the first photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography two years in a row (1976 and 1977).In 1976, he won for the "Fire Escape Collapse", and the next year, he became co-winner for the same award for "The Soiling of Old Glory", a photograph depicting a black attorney, Ted Landsmark, being assaulted by a white male teenager, Joseph Rakes, wielding a flagpole holding the American flag as a weapon during the height of the Boston Desegregation Busing Crisis.In 1979, Forman's photography staff at the "Boston Herald American" won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for coverage of the Blizzard of 1978 in Boston.