Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8225-A
President John F. Kennedy (seated near center left) attends a luncheon for newspaper publishers and editors from Illinois. Seated at table (clockwise, beginning at far head of table): Publisher of the Columbus Dispatch, Robert H. Wolfe; Publisher and Editor of the Lebanon Western Star, Gardner H. Townsley (not visible); Publisher of the Archbold Buckeye, Orrin Rupp Taylor (not visible); Publisher of the Jefferson Gazette, E. W. Lampson (not visible); Editor of the Cleveland Press and News, Louis B. Seltzer (mostly obscured); Publisher of the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, Otto B. Schoepfle (mostly obscured); White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Executive Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal, Benjamin Maidenburg (mostly obscured); Publisher of the Steubenville Herald-Star, William J. Michl (mostly obscured); Editor of the Dayton Daily News, James E. Fain (mostly obscured); Publisher of the Wellington Enterprise, Ernest L. Henes; Editor of the Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, Dick Thornburg; Editor of the Canton Repository, John G. Green; Editor of the Dayton Journal-Herald, Glenn Thompson; Publisher of the Lorain Journal and the Mansfield News-Journal, Harry R. Horvitz; Editor of the Columbus Citizen-Journal, Don E. Weaver; President Kennedy; Publisher and Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Thomas Vail; President of the Toledo Times and Blade, Paul Block, Jr.; Publisher of the Caldwell Journal, Clarence J. Estadt; Publisher of the Zanesville Times Recorder, Henry Clay Littick; and President and Publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Roger H. Ferger. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.