Visiting American Newspapermen at News Briefing | University of Illinois Archives

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Title:

Visiting American Newspapermen at News Briefing

Date:

1948

Description:

A group of journalists sits in armchairs, taking notes. Attached caption reads: "RHEIN/MAIN AIR FORCE BASE, Frankfurt, Germany---Visiting American newspapermen receive an 'Operation Vittles' briefing at Rhein/Main, operational base for the C-54 Skymaster fleet supplying Berlin with food and coal. Front row, left to right: Frank Eleazar, United Press; Larry Laybourne, Time Inc.; James Reston, New York Times; John MacVane, National Broadcasting Company. Back row, left to right: Capt. E. M. Magee, USAFE Assistant Public Information Officer; Capt. R. Towne, Air Lift Task Force Headquarters representative, and Geoffrey Parsons, Jr., Editor of the Paris edition of the Herald-Tribune."

Found in RS 26/20/120, Box 137, Folder General Photographs, undated

Phys. Desc:

TIFF

Original print measures 25.3 cm W x 19.6 cm H

ID:

0010542

Repository:

University of Illinois Archives

Found in:

26/20/120 James B. Reston Papers, 1935-1995

Subjects:

Germany
Journalism
Press

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