Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at center right) attends a luncheon for newspaper publishers and editors from Alabama. Seated at table (clockwise, beginning right of President Kennedy): Publisher of the Montgomery Journal and Advertiser News, Carmage Walls; Executive Editor of the Florence Times and Tri-Cities Daily, Louis A. Eckl; Editor of the Valley Voice, Charles Grainger; Publisher of the Birmingham Sun and Member of the Alabama Press Association, Arthur Cook; Publisher of the Cullman Times-Democrat, Robert Bryan; Editor of the Lee County Bulletin, Neil O. Davis; Publisher of the Anniston Star, H. M. Ayers; Washington correspondent and son of H. M. Ayers, H. Brandt Ayers; Publisher of the Foley Onlooker and Second Vice President of Alabama Press Association, E. M. Howell; Publisher of the Greenville Advocate and Board Chairman of the Alabama Press Association, Glenn Stanley; President and Publisher of the Northwest Alabamian, Jay Thornton; President and Publisher of the Tuscaloosa News and First Vice President of the Alabama Press Association, Buford Boone; President and Publisher of the Birmingham News, C. B. Hanson, Jr.; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Publisher of the Gadsden Times, Frank Helderman; Publisher and Editor of the Decatur Daily, Barrett C. Shelton, Sr.; Editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, Grover Hall, Jr. (not visible); Editor of the Alabama Journal, C. M. Stanley; President of the Birmingham Post-Herald, James Mills; President and Publisher of the Dothan Eagle and President and Publisher of the Troy Messenger, Ralph Nicholson; President and Publisher of the Mobile Register and Press, R. B. Chandler; President of the Talladega Home, J. L. Wallis; President of the Selma Times-Journal, Frank Ford; Publisher of the Jasper Mountain Eagle, Richard Dowis; Editor of the Huntsville Times, Leroy Simms; President of the Opelika News, W. C. Wear, Jr.; and President of the Alabama Press Association and Publisher of the Tallassee Tribune, Herve Charest, Jr. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.