1. Early plate camera, circa 1900, on loan from the Nebraska StateHistorical Society

2. Serial killer Charles Starkweather, being escorted into the DouglasCounty courtroom for his arraignment in February 1958. He wasexecuted at age 19 in 1959

3. Pat Hall, Omaha World-Herald photographer, photographing the Soweratop the Nebraska State Capitol

4. Early TV film camera, circa 1960s. On loan from Dave Hamer5. Omaha newsboy John Radicia — World War II ends6. The World-Herald, circa 1890s. Nebraska farmers show off their tall

corn in front of the World-Herald at 1412 Farnam St. At the turn ofthe century, Nebraska was a leading corn producer

North Wall • Omaha Press Club Hall of History

Omaha Press Club Hall of History subcommittee, 1998:Chris Nelson, chair, Steve Murphy, Dave Hamer, James Denney,

Howard K. Marcus, Dottie Sater, Julie Zelenka.

This key produced by a subcommittee of the OPC Communications Committee, 2005:Judy Horan, Bridget Brooks, Jon Brooks.

West Wall • OPC Traditions

1. In the winner’s circle at a 1959 Ak-Sar-Ben Racesponsored by OPC

2. John Savage, on the job, circa late 1940s. Savagehad a reputation of knowing everybody inOmaha. He is credited with getting 1,000 non-binding pledges of membership as collateral fora building loan for our restaurant atop the FirstNational Center. The deal was struck with JohnDavis, bank president at the time. Davisremained a good friend of the Press Club

3. Howard Swain performs at an OPC Show4. Omaha World-Herald columnist Bob McMorris as

“Tiny Tiemann” in late 1960s OPC Show. Six-foot-tall ex-Army sergeant Gov. Norbert Tiemannwas “honored” with the skit

5. Dedicating the Spiro Agnew Room (the privateroom on the south) and unveiling Agnew’s “Faceon the Barroom Floor” in 1972: John Savage,

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and then-OPCPresident Terry Forsberg

6. President Gerald R. Ford, born in Omaha, signshis “Face on the Barroom Floor” in 1976

7. Press Club under construction in 1971. OPC’sBob McMorris, John Savage and Mary LouAnderson with John Davis of First National Bank

8. Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb., in his last publicappearance. The senator suffered a fatal heartattack shortly after performing a parody to “TheGreat Pretender” in the 1987 OPC Gridiron Showat Peony Park. His backup singers were JoniHoffman, Liz Coury, Carol Schrader and (notpictured) Chris Christen Nelson

9. Verla Hamer and Steve Murphy at OPC Show10. Press Club streetcar steak fry in John Savage’s

backyard11. ConAgra CEO Mike Harper, as Gen. George Patton

in 1988 OPC Show, “Harper’s Bizarre: NebraskaGets the Business”

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1. President Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)2. President William Howard Taft (1909-1913)3. President Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969)4. Alabama Gov. George Wallace5. Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan,

three-time presidential candidate, was namedsecretary of state in 1912 under PresidentWoodrow Wilson

6. President McKinley’s visit during the 1898TransMississippi and International Exposition,which drew 2.6 million people to Omaha

7. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey

North Wall • Nebraska Campaign Stops

8. Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb. (1989-2001), waspreviously Nebraska’s governor, 1983-1987

9. President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)10. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaking to

crowds at 24th and Erskine, 1968. He wasassassinated a short time later in Los Angeles

11. President Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974) withSen. Carl T. Curtis, R-Neb

12. President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) visitsNorth Platte

13. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932-1948)14. President George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)

1. Pulitzer winners2. World-Herald photographer Earle “Buddy” Bunker

photographed the return of Lt. Col. Robert Moore atthe train station at Villisca, Iowa. The World War IIhero is greeted by his 7-year-old daughter, Nancy,while his wife sobs. Looking on is the colonel’snephew. The photograph (“The Homecoming”) wonthe Pulitzer Prize in 1944 and was later featured inLife, Time, Newsweek and other national publications.Bunker died in 1975

3. “Law of the Jungle” — This World-Herald editorialby Harvey Newbranch won the 1920 Pulitzer foreditorial writing

4. Douglas County Courthouse riot in 19195. Associated Press Teletype

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1. Baseball Hall of Fame member Bob Gibson brokerecords during 17 years with the St. Louis Cardinals

2. Rep. Robert Denney, D-Neb; Sen. Roman L.Hruska, R-Neb.; U.S. Attorney Gen. JohnMitchell; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture CliffordHardin

3. “Mrs. B.,” Rose Blumkin, Russian immigrant whofounded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937.She died in 1998 at age 104

4. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, EleanorRoosevelt, Sen. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, D-Neb.

5. University of Nebraska head football coach BobDevaney (1962-1972), whose 1971 Nebraskateam was voted history’s greatest. His teamsachieved eight Big 8 Championships and twonational championships

6. Nikita Khrushchev at Garst farm near CoonRapids, Iowa, in 1958. WOW-TV and Radio staffmembers: Bill Ramsey, Bill Laviolette, HarryStutsman, Arnold Peterson and Ray Clark (WOW-TV’s first news anchor in 1949)

7. Gen. Curtis LeMay, founder of the Strategic AirCommand at Offutt Air Force Base, with WorldWar II ace Joe Foss

North Wall • News Makers

8. Omaha investor Warren Buffett with an annualreport from his company, Berkshire-Hathaway.The billionaire has appeared in a number of OPCShows

9. University of Nebraska football coach TomOsborne

10. Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of BoysTown, and actor Spencer Tracy who won an Oscarfor his role in the 1938 movie “Boys Town”

11. Nebraska author Mari Sandoz on the set atChannel 12 in Lincoln

12. Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers, first electedin 1970

13. Republican Sen. George W. Norris representedNebraska in Congress for 40 years

14. Gene Leahy, Omaha’s fun-loving mayor from 1967to 1973, wore a bunny suit for charity and onceat a news conference

15. War hero Gen. John J. “Black Jack” Pershing16. Omaha City Councilwoman and mayoral

candidate Brenda Council17. Speed Graphic press camera, circa 1950s. On loan

from Bill Ramsey

1. Arnold Peterson — WOW Radio-TV farm director2. TV personality Joni Baillon of KMTV interviewing

Johnny Carson of NBC-TV’s “Tonight Show” in 1969.KMTV was then an NBC affiliate. He was in town toopen his first “Here’s Johnny” restaurant on S.72nd Street. Carson, who died in 2005, had workedin Omaha at WOW-TV

3. Television personality Betty Abbott, herepitching Gingham Girl products, later becamethe first female member of the Omaha CityCouncil

4. Carol Schrader, circa mid-1980s, KETV eveninganchor for 15 years

5. WOW-TV newsroom in 1971. (From bottomclockwise) Ray Depa, Don Peterson, SteveMurphy, Russ Baldwin, Arnold Peterson, LarryHall, Bill Burke, Bob Mockler, Pete Petrashek,Jan Hall Colanino

6. Byron Wood and Gary Kerr, WOWT-TV co-anchors,recording promos with Walter Cronkite in theNew York studios of CBS-TV

7. WOW-TV news unit8. Omaha World-Herald typesetter9. Newspaper type case10. World-Herald newsroom in the 1930s11. KFAB Radio morning team: Kent Pavelka, Don

Cole and Walt Kavanaugh in 198912. WOW-TV live on location during 1952 flood13. Steve Bell, WOW-TV newscaster in the early

1960s; he later became an ABC newscorrespondent in Vietnam. President John F.Kennedy is in the background

14. Mary McGrath, Omaha World-Herald, first womanto break into news reporting ranks in Omaha,was a medical writer

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1. WOW-TV and Radio reporter Dottie Hayes (Sater)interviewing actor Jimmy Stewart. He starredin the movie “Strategic Air Command” —released in 1955. As Col. Jimmy Stewart, he wasa bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps

2. KFAB Radio Husker Team — Lyell (“Man, womanand child”) Bremser, Dave “Blackie” Blackwell,Jack Payne

3. Tom Allan — Omaha World-Herald reporter for 52 years4. Bill Billotte — Omaha World-Herald reporter in

the Pacific during World War II5. Omaha’s first television weatherman, Chuck

Thomas of WOW-TV6. Floyd Kalber, early KMTV newsman in 1950, who

left Omaha in 1960 for a career as a news anchorin Chicago and for NBC-TV’s “Today Show”— withMark Gautier, later KMTV news director

7. KMTV live truck on Douglas Street (circa 1950)8. News photographer Dave Hamer and newsman Tom

Brokaw of KMTV. Brokaw went on to become NBCNightly News anchor before retiring in 2004

9. Headset that belonged to KFAB Radio’s “Mr.Football” Lyell Bremser, Voice of the Huskers,1939 to 1983. “Oh, man, woman and child...”

10. Hollis Limprecht, editor of the Omaha World-Herald Sunday “Magazine of the Midlands” for24 years

11. KMTV news correspondent Ninette Beaver in anexclusive interview with fugitive Caril Ann Fugate

12. Jim Denney, Omaha World-Herald reporter, atMount Rushmore

13. Early radio microphone on loan from theNebraska State Historical Society

14. Omaha World-Herald newsmen Fred Ware, GregMcBride and Wally Provost

15. Arthur Godfrey, CBS-TV show host (1948-1959)and Mal Hansen of WOW-TV and Radio. Godfreyand his horse were putting on a dressageexhibition at the Ak-Sar-Ben Rodeo

16. Lee Terry, KETV’s news director and news anchorfor more than 17 years

17. John Savage, award-winning Omaha World-Heraldphotographer and a founder of the Omaha PressClub, covering the 1940 Henshaw Hotel fire,which destroyed the Redick Building next door

18. Early Omaha radio station19. Howard Silber, Omaha World-Herald military

affairs reporter

North Wall • News Gatherers

1. Caril Ann Fugate was 14 when she accompaniedher boyfriend, serial killer Charles Starkweather,on a killing spree across Nebraska. Convicted in1958, she was paroled from prison in 1976

2. Blizzard of 1975. Stranded motorists at high noon on72nd Street, looking north. Dodge Street andCrossroads Mall are in the background

3. Omaha police officer Jimmy Wilson’s funeral, 19954. The 1913 Easter Sunday tornado struck Omaha

with little warning5. Joe Frazier’s weigh-in before he fought and beat

Ron “Bluffs Butcher” Stander in Omaha in 1972.Council Bluffs native Stander had been rankedeighth in the world

6. Omaha World-Herald editorial cartoon by JeffKoterba, 1991

7. In 1879, the trial of Ponca Indian Chief StandingBear in a United States District Court in Omahaled to a judicial decision that native Americans

North Wall • Headline Storiesare “persons within the meaning of the law” andhave rights of citizenship. (l-to-r) Walk-in-the-Wind,the chief’s orphaned grandson; Standing Bear;Sunshine, his only living child; Susette, the chief’swife; and Light of the Way, an orphaned niece

8. The old Omaha post office was demolished inthe 1960s

9. Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle during 1988 vice-presidential debate at the Omaha CivicAuditorium

10. President Harry S Truman walking up DodgeStreet to Memorial Park dedication on June 5,1948

11. Crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City,Iowa, 1989

12. Nebraska football Quarterback Tommie Frazierled the Nebraska Cornhuskers to two consecutiveNational Championships in the 1990s

13. Missouri River flood, 195214. 1975 Omaha tornado, Ak-Sar-Ben area

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