Walt Bodine Collection

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...

Edwin Meese (left) and George McGovern (right) sit in a studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Meese is speaking, and McGovern listens. Both men are pictured from waist to head...

Edwin Meese (left) and George McGovern (right) sit in a studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Both men are pictured from waist to head, smiling. They are seated behind microphones...

Edwin Meese (left) and George McGovern (right) sit in a studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Both men are pictured from waist to head. George McGovern appears in profile. Both men...

Edwin Meese (left) and George McGovern (right) appear in the studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Meese is speaking. Both men are pictured from waist to head, wearing headphones...

Edwin Meese (left) and Walt Bodine (right) speak in a studio during a break on an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. The On Air indicator is not lit, and the men have removed their headphones...

A headshot of Edwin Meese in the studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Meese appears to be speaking. He wears headphones, and a microphone is placed on the desk before him.

A headshot of Edwin Meese sitting in the studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Meese wears headphones and is smiling. A microphone is placed on the desk before him.

Edwin Meese, George McGovern, and an unidentified white woman (from left to right) appear in a studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. All figures are pictured from waist to head...

Edwin Meese, George McGovern, and an unidentified white woman (left to right) appear in a studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. All figures are pictured from waist to head and...

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, 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...

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 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 and Bernadine Bodine are at social event. Bodine takes a plate of food offered by another person and smiles at him. Bodine is pictured approximately waist to head. Bernadine Bodine is in the left...

Headshots of Walt Bodine (left) and possibly Bernadine Bodine (right) at a formal event. She has her arm around Walt Bodine. Both figures are looking at the camera, posing for the picture.

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 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 (left) and Edwin Meese (right) speak in the studio, presumably off air, during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. The men are in profile, facing one another. They are standing and...

Walt Bodine (left) and Edwin Meese (right) speak in the studio, presumably off air, during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. The men are in profile, facing one another. They are standing and...

Walt Bodine (left) and Edwin Meese (right) speak off air in the studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Bodine is pictured from waist to head with his hands folded on the desk. Meese...

Edwin Meese (left) and Walt Bodine (right) speak in a studio during a break on an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Meese is in profile, looking down at the desk with a cup in his hands. Bodine...

Walt Bodine (left) and Edwin Meese (right) speak off air in the studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Bodine is pictured from behind and holds his glasses. Meese is pictured from...

Walt Bodine (left) and executive producer Andrea Young (right) stand behind a desk in the studio, looking at a book titled Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph over Childhood Abuse by...