Gene Mater Director of News in the News Room on the Day of the Assassination of President Kennedy
General information
- Call No.:
-
300-1-8:1/58
- Part of series
- HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files
- Located at
- Archival photo box #1 / No. 58
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU OSA 300-1-8_001-058
- Legacy ID
- rfe_workflow_058
- Date
- 1963
- Level
- Item
- Primary Type
- Still image
- Language
- English
- Notes
- The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.
Content
- Form/Genre
- Photograph
- Contents Summary
- Three men in the front of the picture in the busy news room. The middle one, standing, is Gene Mater director of news. One of the three men is sitting at a desk and taking out an incoming message from the fax machine. The third is holding a long sheaf of paper in his hands. There are a few more working in the background. All of them are in office clothes, many wear glasses. On the desks there are telephones, a bottle, papers scattered around.A clock on the wall reads 32 minutes past 4. Cf. HU OSA 300-1-8:1/59.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
n.a.
Context
- Associated Names
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)
- Associated Places
- Munich
Subject / Coverage
- Spatial Coverage
- Munich
- Germany
- Collection Specific Tags
- assassination of Kennedy, clock, Cold War, man, news room, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, telephone