Walt Bodine Collection

Walt Bodine receives the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum Auditorium. The image is from the audience's perspective. Bodine is seated on the...

Walt Bodine receives the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum Auditorium. The image is from the audience's perspective. Bodine is seated on the...

Walt Bodine accepts the RINDA Award from a presenter on behalf of WDAF. The plaque reads The 12th Annual Awards Competition of the Radio Television News Directors Association Honors WDAF for News...

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 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 (right) and an unidentified woman (left) at a Holiday Event. The woman holds Walt Bodine's book, Walt Bodine: My Times, My Town. She has her arm on Bodine's shoulder and stands beside him...

Walt Bodine (left) and executive producer Andrea Young (right) in the KCUR studio, possibly for an episode of The Walt Bodine Show. Bodine is seated behind a microphone at a desk, holding his glasses...

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 (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 (left) and columnist Donald Kaul (right) in the studio during an episode of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR. Bodine sits in the foreground, looking at the camera while Kaul looks at Bodine...

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 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 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 behind and holds his glasses. Meese is pictured from...

Executive producer Andrea Young (left) and Walt Bodine (right) at a formal event. Both figures pose for the picture, looking at the camera and smiling. They appear to be seated at a table. Gold...

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...