Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8084-A
President John F. Kennedy attends a luncheon with U.S. broadcasting executives in the State Dining Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. Clockwise around table (from far right): J. Leonard Reinsch, of Cox Broadcasting Stations; President and General Manager of Steinman Stations, Clair R. McCollough; E. R. “Curly” Vadeboncoeur, of Newhouse Broadcasting Stations; George B. Storer, Sr., of Storer Broadcasting Company (seated back from table); singer, actor, and Chairman of Golden West Broadcasters, Gene Autry; President Kennedy; unidentified; President of WSM Radio (Nashville, Tennessee), John H. DeWitt; President of the Peoples Broadcasting Company, Herbert E. Evans; John W. Kluge, of Metromedia, Inc.; President and Co-founder of Wometco Enterprises, Inc., Mitchell Wolfson; Associate Press Secretary, Andrew T. Hatcher; President and Owner of Fetzer TV, Inc., John E. Fetzer; President of WGN Continental Broadcasting, Ward L. Quaal; unidentified; Chairman of the Radio and Television Board of Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), William B. Quarton; President of Westinghouse Broadcasting Stations, Donald H. McGannon; Co-founder of WDSU-TV (New Orleans), Edgar B. Stern, Jr.; President and Founder of Knight Quality Stations, Norman Knight; Founder and President of KVOO-TV (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Harold C. Stuart; Vice President and General Manager of Triangle Stations, Roger W. Clipp. Also listed in the President’s schedule: Owner of KREX TV and Radio (Grand Junction, Colorado), Rex Howell; Owner of KTVU Oakland-San Francisco, William D. Pabst; Chairman of Corinthian Broadcasting Company, C. Wrede Petersmeyer; President of Taft Broadcasting Stations, Hulbert Taft, Jr.; Chairman of the Board of The Goodwill Stations, Inc., John F. Patt.