Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6419-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with broadcasting executives in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: President Kennedy; J. Leonard Reinsch, of Cox Broadcasting Stations; CBS Executive, Richard Salant; Chairman of Corinthian Broadcasting Co., Wrede Petersmeyer. On behalf of the Radio and Television Executives Society Inc., Reinsch presented President Kennedy with a gold Radio and Television Executives Society Medal, in response to President Kennedy’s innovation of holding live, televised press conferences. [See also MO 63.1783, "The Radio and Television Executives Society Medal"]