Walt Bodine Collection

Walt Bodine (center) and Bill Leeds in 1960 Election Promo for WDAF TV. Bodine sits at a desk behind a camera and microphones, looking into the camera, perhaps speaking. The names Kennedy and Nixon...

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, Bill Leeds, and unidentified co-workers at WDAF studios. Bodine appears in the three photos in the left column. He speaks to two unidentified co-workers behind a table and is pictured...

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...

Walt Bodine and Randall Jessee stand at a podium during an event for the 1954 United Campaign. Both men look at the camera, smiling, and are pictured approximately from knee to head. A banner on the...

Walt Bodine (right) and two unidentified people speak at a panel discussion. The three figures sit at a table in front of an audience. Bodine appears to be speaking, and he gesticulates with one hand...

Walt Bodine with an unidentified man possibly during his time with WDAF. The two sit at a table, looking at a newspaper. The man on the left of the image holds a pen. Bodine appears to hold a...

Walt Bodine and unidentified newsroom writers most likely in the WDAF studios. Bodine appears with two unidentified newsroom staff in the top left image. Bodine crosses one arm on his chest while the...

Walt Bodine as a child, 1879 Armstrong, Kansas City, KS. Bodine faces the camera, pictured from head to toe. A house is in the background. A woman looks out the front door on the right of the image.

Walt Bodine as a toddler in a toy car, 910 Northrup, Kansas City, Kansas. Bodine looks at the camera and smiles. He is outside what appears to be a house. A fence and steps are seen behind him.

Walt Bodine as a toddler with 3 unidentified women, 1879 Armstrong, Kansas City, KS. The three women look at the camera while Bodine looks to his right. A neighborhood street is seen in the background...

Walt Bodine as a young boy standing next to an automobile. Bodine is pictured from head to toe. A woman stands to his left, but her face is obscured perhaps from overexposure.

Walt Bodine as a young man with a young woman named Tootsie. The two stand side by side, pictured from approximately head to toe. Bodine stands with his hands together, and both look at the camera...

Walt Bodine at broadcast with an unidentified man perhaps during his time with WDAF. Bodine is in profile, looking at the man. A microphone is on the table before them. Both men are pictured from...

Walt Bodine (center) at broadcast with two unidentified men. The men sit at a table with a microphone in front of them. The man closest to the camera wears a pair of headphones. Coffee cups, photos...

Walt Bodine (right) at broadcast with two unidentified men. Bodine sits at a table, pictured from approximately waist to head, in conversation with the man in the center of the photo. The man on the...

Walt Bodine (right) at broadcast with two unidentified men. Bodine sits at a table, pictured from approximately waist to head, facing the two men. A framed newspaper article in the background...