Walt Bodine Collection

Bill Griffith and unidentified newsroom writers most likely at WDAF studios. In the left column, the camera's vantage point looks down a long table with a full ashtray in the foreground and two...

Bill Leeds and Bill Griffith at WDAF studios. The men appear in profile in the majority of the photos on the contact sheet with the exception of the left, middle photo where Bill Leeds leans back in...

Bill Leeds and unidentified co-workers at WDAF studios. Leeds, pictured from chest to head, writes on a typewriter in the left column photos and in the bottommost photo in the right column. In the...

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...

Bill Leeds with unidentified newsroom writers at WDAF studios. Leeds is pictured in profile from approximately waist to head in most of the photos. He works alongside two unidentified co-workers in...

Bill Leeds, Bill Griffith, and unidentified newsroom writers at WDAF studios. Bill Griffith, pictured from approximately chest to head, appears in the middle column photos. Bill Leeds leans over a...

Chris Condone (left) and Bill Leeds (right) seated at a podium behind a microphone. Leeds appears to be speaking. Both men are pictured from waist to head, Leeds in profile. A name plate reading Bill...

Contact sheet with multiple images of Walt Bodine, Robert H. Bork, and Mary Ellen Bork in the KCUR studio for a radio interview. Figures are seated at a desk, behind microphones. Six images depict all...

A crowd of children await Nikita Khrushchev, waving American flags. Walt Bodine appears in the left of the photo, writing on a clipboard, facing the children. The children stand lined up on the side...

Five unidentified white men, one in military uniform. The men stand in a row, each with their hands held in front. Each man looks at the camera, smiling. A building, perhaps a house is seen in the...

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...

Jim Pritchett, Larry Wagner, Walt Bodine (bottom right), John Masterman, and Jack Barry hold up their middle fingers to the camera. The men stand on stairs outside a house or building. All look into...

Jim Pritchett, Larry Wagner, Walt Bodine, John Masterman, and Jack Barry pose for the cover of Kansas City Town Squire. Most of the men are pictured from chest to head. Some smile at the camera while...

Marty Bodine on a Colorado vacation. The toddler walks or runs through a grassy field. Another child is seen in the background. Marty is pictured from approximately knees to head in three quarter...

From left to right: Mark Marzec, Marty Bodine, and Geraldine Beisner Marzec on a Colorado vacation. The children stand by a well hand pump. Mark has his hands on the pump. Mountains and trees are in...

From left to right: Mark Marzec, Marty Bodine, and Geraldine Beisner Marzec on a Colorado vacation. The children stand by a well hand pump. Mark has a hand on the handle. Mountains and trees are in...

Marty Bodine (right) with Mark Marzec on a Colorado vacation. The toddlers are playing behind the wheel of a vehicle and smiling. Both are pictured approximately from waist to head. A tree and...

Unidentified newsroom writers most likely at WDAF studios. In the left column of photos unidentified writers work on typewriters. A man, pictured from approximately waist to head, looks downward at...

An unidentified toddler and an unidentified baby look at the camera, smiling. Both are pictured from feet to head and are sitting beside one another. The baby sits in a child carrier. A bookshelf and...

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...