Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7720-A
President John F. Kennedy (seated at center) attends a luncheon for newspaper publishers and editors from Illinois. Seated at table, facing camera (L-R): Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of the Kankakee Journal, Len H. Small; Publisher of the Elgin Courier-News, William Hoyt Cater; President of the Illinois Press Association, John A. Holmes; President Kennedy; First Vice President of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Rochelle News Leader, William Kenneth Smith; Third Vice President of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Melrose Park Star Sentinel, Paul D. Coffman; Co-Owner and Business Manager of the Moline Dispatch, Robert H. Sward; and Managing Editor for the Midwest Edition of the Wall Street Journal, John A. McWethy. Seated at table, facing away from camera (L-R): Publisher of the Decatur Herald and Review, the East St. Louis Journal, and the Quincy Herald-Whig, Frank M. Lindsay, Sr.; President and Publisher of the Waukegan News Sun, Frank Ward Just; White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; and Treasurer of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Bridgeport Leader, Roy R. Rucker. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.