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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1965
KU Student Not Awed by JFK; It Was All in His Day's Work
Many KU students would have been overwhelmed to meet the late President John F. Kennedy; for William Lynch it was a matter of occupational routine.
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The Washington, D.C., sophomore had numerous contacts with the president during his prep school days as a part-time employee of CBS and its Washington affiliate, radio-TV station WTOP.
His first meeting with Kennedy, however, was immediately prior to the 1960 Democratic convention
Official Bulletin
TODAY
County Clerks School, All Day. Kansas Union.
Classical Film, 7:00 p.m. "Yojimbo.' Fraser Theater.
College Life 7:15 p.m. 1921 Vermont St. Lawrence Student Center Class Schedule; "Psychological aspects of the sacrament of confession." 7:00 p.m.
All International Students Meeting 7:30 p.m. People-to-People Summer Job Placement Meeting, Forum Room, Kansas, Union
Civil Rights Council, 7:30 p.m. Parlor
Arizona, Planning group for spring
spring semester.
Senior Recital, 8:00 p.m. Alice Joy Lewis, violinist. Swarth Recital Hall. Geology Lecture, 8:15 p.m. Dr. Theodore R. Walker, Univ. of Colo. 426 Lind
TOMORROW
Episcopal Holy Communion, 11:35 a.m.
Canterbury House, 1116 La.
County Clerks School, All Day. Kansas Union.
Mathematics Colloquium, 3:30 p.m.
"Mathematics and Computing Difficulties in the Use of Linear Program Models."
Dr. Russ Arnosfsky from Scoony Mobi Oil Co.
Wrestling, 6:00 p.m. Kansas State. Here.
Kansas basketball, 7:30 p.m. Kansas
State. There.
Gambia Independence Day Celebration, 7:30 p.m. Parlor Rooms, Kansas City Talk on Gambian independence by Marylin Conateh and Dean B. W. Marylin
St. Lawrence Student Center Class
Schedule: Fundamentals of Catholic
Faith (second semester)
Fundamentals of Catholic Faith (second
semester), 10:40 a.m.; Fundamentals of
Catholic Faith (second semester), 4:00
Catholic Faith (second semester), 4:00
Temporary Philosophical Thought
7:00
Wesley Foundation Evensong. 5:00 p.m.
Methodist Center, 1314 Oread.
Teaching Candidates: Interviews scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 18, by Teachers Appointment Bureau, 117 Ba': California Auberton, Junior College, high school and college Union High, secondary; California caster School District, elementary; California—Garden Grove Unified School District, elementary and secondary.
Lynch and two fellow students of Georgetown Prep School conducted a 3-hour interview with the Massachusetts senator for the Blue and Gray Quarterly, a school publication.
"WE HAD TRIED for several weeks to get an interview," said Lynch, "but he would always get called away from his office just as time for our appointment came.
"Finally, though, he managed to find time for us," continued Lynch. "The only interruption came when Abraham Ribicoff (then Governor of Connecticut) and Theodore Sorenson, Kennedy's top speech writer, came in for a moment to huddle on campaign strategy." Lynch said. "The interview would have lasted for more than three hours if Senator Kennedy hadn't suddenly been called to a quorum.
"I remember that he was very confident at the time that he would win the nomination." Lynch said.
During his junior and senior years in prep school, Lynch worked parttime as a radio and television reporter.
"I STARTED out as a copy boy," he says. "After a period I became a member of one of the CBS camera teams. Occasionally I would be assigned to cover a story myself."
The assignment that is most memorable to Lynch came when he was floor director for President Kennedy's Oct. 22, 1962 television address to the nation on the Cuba crisis. Lynch cued the President to the time and to the camera which was operating.
"None of us on the news team knew exactly what the President was
going to talk about. We were aware it was going to concern armaments in Cuba, but that was all. We were as nervous and tense as anyone else." Lynch said.
For a year Lynch wrote and directed a radio program on WTOP, a 30-minute Sunday news feature called "Week in Review."
"I REALLY BECAME ADEPT at rewriting the Sunday New York Times section on the news review," Lynch laughed.
Lynch also served as a panelist for 26 productions of "Youth Wants to Know," a syndicated educational TV program. Such persons as Supreme Court Justice Byron White, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, and past P.U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth appeared on the program during Lynch's term with it.
He was the only CBS motion-picture photographer who covered the summer-1963 talks between French Foreign Minister Maurie Cource De Maurville and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
"THEIR MEETINGS WERE HELD on President Kennedy's yacht," Lynch remembers. "As they cruised down the Potomac I decided to get an overhead shot of them sitting on the deck by climbing onto a railroad trestle.
"Just as the yacht was passing underneath, the board I was standing on gave way. I nearly killed myself with that one. As it was, I was able to catch myself only after the camera had smashed into a restraining bar and three of the lenses were shattered."
Jim's Steak House formerly
The Steak House
is now open under new management serving lunch and dinner.
Open
Weekdays 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sat. 11 a.m. to ? Sun. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Closed Tuesdays
Jim's Steak House
Over the bridge on East 23rd
Phone VI 3-9753
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