Walt Bodine Collection

Bill Leeds (right) and an unidentified man (left) work at the WDAF station. Leeds smokes a cigarette. The unidentified man drinks a bottle of Coca-Cola in one image and rests his head on his hand in...

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview Adlai Stevenson possibly for WDAF. The three figures are pictured from approximately waist to head. Leeds (left) and Bodine (right) are in profile while Stevenson...

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview an unidentified African American man on WDAF's show Insight. Bodine and Leeds appear in three quarter profile; all figures are pictured from approximately waist to...

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview Dean Acheson on WDAF's show Insight. Bodine and Leeds appear in three quarter profile, seated with their backs towards the camera. All figures are pictured from...

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview people on the street for WDAF. Leeds appears to be in conversation with a person in a crowd. He is pictured in profile from feet to head. Bodine appears behind a...

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview Thomas Hart Benton on WDAF's show Insight. Leeds and Bodine sit in the background. Both smile broadly for the camera. Bodine is pictured from approximately waist...

Four publicity pictures of Walt Bodine on 1 contact sheet. Bodine is pictured from approximately chest to head in each photo, facing the camera. He has slight smiles in some pictures but not in others...

A Group of KPRS station newsmen and staffers (white men, one African American man) with humorous captions imposed. The group of men stand behind desks, and most appear to look at the camera, posing...

Harry S. Truman writes on a piece of paper while seated at a desk. The former president is pictured from approximately waist to head, and his face appears in three quarter profile. He looks downward...

An unidentified woman and an unidentified man work on a news story. This image was perhaps taken during Bodine's time with WDAF. The woman holds a paper which she appears to read from. She holds a...

An unidentified woman stands in an unknown location. She is pictured from approximately knees to head. She holds one hand up to her head, perhaps touching her hair. In her other hand she holds what...

An unidentified white man creating an illustration. The young man is seated with his painting and board on his lap. He is pictured from approximately knees to head. He looks off-camera, perhaps at the...

Walt Bodine and co-workers at WDAF studios. Bodine appears in several of the photos. In the third column, Bodine sits behind a typewriter. He is pictured from approximately chest to head. Bodine also...

Walt Bodine in the studio with a co-worker at WDAF studios. Bodine appears in profile in several of the images on the contact sheet. He stands beside an unidentified co-worker; both men lean over a...

Walt Bodine and Bill Griffith interview Martin Luther King, Jr. on WDAF's show Insight. All three men sit around a table, pictured from approximately knees to head. King is in the foreground, looking...

Walt Bodine (center) and Bill Leeds interview an unidentified man for WDAF's show Insight. All three men are seated and look at the camera, smiling. The guest sits closest to the camera while the two...

Walt Bodine (left) and Bill Leeds interview entertainer Joe E. Lewis (center) on WDAF's show Insight. All three men are seated, looking at the camera, and pictured from approximately waist to head...

Walt Bodine & Bill Leeds interview Missouri Governor John M. Dalton on WDAF's show Insight. All three men are seated, pictured from approximately knees to head. They look at the camera, mostly...

Walt Bodine and Bill Leeds interview Stuart Symington on WDAF's show Insight. All three men sit around a table. Symington is in the foreground while the other two men are in the background. All of the...

Walt Bodine (right) and Bill Leeds on WDAF's show Insight. Both men appear in profile, facing the right side of the image. They appear to be in the process of interviewing an unknown guest on the show...

Walt Bodine and Dr. Martin Luther King sit at a table and look into the camera for a publicity photograph of King's appearance on the WDAF show Insight. King's face is pictured; Bodine appears from...

Walt Bodine and Jean Glenn broadcast at a WDAF studio. The two are seated at a desk and speak in a microphone before them. A telephone and other broadcast equipment are on the table. Glenn holds a pen...

Walt Bodine (left) and Jean Glenn (right) interview Robert (Bobby) Kennedy. Kennedy and Glenn look in Bodine's direction who appears to be speaking into the microphone. The three figures are pictured...

Walt Bodine (left) and Jean Glenn (right) interview Rock Hudson. The three figures are pictured from approximately chest to head, their faces in profile or three quarter profile. Hudson faces Glenn...

Walt Bodine and other unidentified reporters on a contact sheet at WDAF studios. Bodine appears in 2 images in the third column of the contact sheet-the middle image and the bottommost image. In these...