Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7704-A
President John F. Kennedy (seated at center) attends a luncheon for newspaper publishers and editors from Georgia. Seated at table (clockwise, beginning right of President Kennedy): Editor of the Tri-County Advertiser, Amilee Chastain Graves; President and Publisher of the Marietta Journal, Brooks P. Smith; Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Eugene C. Patterson; President and Publisher of the West Point Valley Times-News, Doyle E. Shirley; Publisher of the LaGrange News, Glen O. Long; President of the Cordele Dispatch, Elden Wayne Mathews; President and Editor of the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Lee Edward Kelly, Jr.; Editor of the Swainsboro Forest-Blade, William C. Rogers; Editor of the Cairo Messenger, Herbert Hamilton Wind, Jr.; Editor of the Walton Tribune, Sanders Camp, Sr. (not visible); Editor and General Manager of the Atlanta Daily World, Cornelius Adolphus Scott; Publisher of the Griffin News, Oliver Quimby Melton, Sr. (mostly obscured); President and Publisher of the Columbus Enquirer and Ledger, Maynard R. Ashworth; White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Editor of the Carroll County Georgian, D. Stanley Parkman (mostly obscured); Publisher of the Macon Telegraph and the Macon News, Peyton T. Anderson; Publisher and Editor of the Milledgeville Union-Recorder, Powell A. Moore; Editor of the Valdosta Times, John Turner Rockwell, Jr.; President and Editor of the Tifton Gazette, Homer M. Rankin; Publisher and Editor of the Dublin Courier-Herald, Walter H. Champion; Editor of the Bulloch Herald, Leodel Coleman, Sr.; Publisher and Editor of the Albany Herald, James H. Gray (mostly obscured); Publisher and Editor of the Americus Times-Recorder, James R. Blair; Publisher and Editor of the Cartersville Tribune News, John T. Fleetwood; Assistant to the Publisher of the August Chronicle and Herald and the Savannah News and Press, William S. Morris III; President of the Moultrie Observer, Max E. Nussbaum, Jr.; and President of the Georgia Press Association, Jack Williams, Jr. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.