LINKS TO UPI-RELATED IMAGES (Part I):
(Last updated: Sunday, March 29, 2009)
UPI Founder E.W. Scripps from Company's 75th Anniversary Report.
The Cleveland Press, left announces UP's formation; W.S. Forrest, UP Paris manager, by car that drove him to WWI.
1916 Tuxedo ad by United Press war reporters. This is a print ad for tobacco, featuring testimonials from "world famous reporters" of World War I who "tell why the modern war correspondent smokes Tuxedo." These correspondents are described in the ad as being "among the most brilliant men in the world today - men of genius, able thinkers, talented writers." Two of the illustrations are of William Philip Simms, manager of the Paris UP bureau and Walter Niebuhr, who was "with the German army during the drive for Warsaw for the United Press." (Courtesy of Tom Foty via eBay).
Historic photo of the Wright Brothers' plane in flight, one of 14 million UPI pictures now owned by Microsoft's Bill Gates. This shot was distributed by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, which was the forerunner of UPI Newspictures.
Santa Barbara earthquake coverage in 1925 ( From memoirs of Frank Batholomew, president of UPI/UPI 1955-1962).
UP headquarters at the old World Building in New York during the early 1920s. That's Karl Bickel standing at center, with Hugh Baillie to his left. UP moved to 220 East 42nd Street in 1931, and didn't move again for 50 years.
UP's Newsroom just after moving to new offices at 220 East 42nd Street in New York in 1931.
Babe Ruth being interviewed by UP sports writer Jack Cuddy in the 1930s.
Man looks at photographs transmitted by the Unifax machine. Developed by United Press in the 1930s-1940s, it was the first automatic picture receiver. (UP Photo)
Ocean Press was a news service for ocean liners - comprised of copy from United Press and later United Press International. The masthead indicates it was published by a separate corporate subsidiary of Scripps, but essentially under one roof with UP/UPI at the Daily News Building in New York.
Roy Howard, the brash and energetic young man selected while he was still in his 20s by E.W. Scripps to head UP.
December 1940 trade ad in Variety for the United Press radio news service. Note the UP logo in the left and the headline claim: "United Press - The Dominant News Service."
Ad for United Press coverage of World War II, featuring the late correspondent Robert C. Miller, who worked off and on for the company from 1938 to 1983.
Cover to an unfolding series of C.S. Hammond maps of the Pacific war zone of World War II. It carried the name of United Press and was distributed by then co-owned United Feature Syndicate as a promotional supplement for UP subcriber newspapers. It contained space for the paper's own promotion. It does not contain a copyright or publication date but was clearly issued during the war. This copy was from the Boston Globe, with the back page listing that paper's "Overseas Staff" of 23.
Two UP Legends -- Walter Cronkite and Frank Bartholomew.
Cross marks the former UPI bureau in Paris near the Opera House at No. 2 Rue Des Italiens.
New England UP editors meeting in Boston.
Boston bureau circa 1950s . (Courtesy of Dave Haskell)
1926 filming of "Old Ironsides" (From memoirs of Frank Batholomew, president of UP/UPI 1955-1962).
UP Foreign News Maps. This is the cover to a series of maps, called United Press Foreign News Maps, distributed by United Feature Syndicate. This particular copy was "courtesy of" . . . the Scripps co-owned New York World-Telegram and Sun .. ("America's Great Evening Newspaper.") There is no date on the cover of the maps, but the prominence of Korea -- listed first among the regions on the picture -- and the fact that it was distributed by a merged World-Telegram would seem to place them in the early 1950s.
United Press correspondents (L-R) Frank M. Bartholemew, Robert N. Bennyhoff, Joe Quinn and Hugh Baille, president of UPI, work from ring-side at the atomic blast, "Operation Bigshot," on April 22, 1952, at Yucca Flats, Nev. (UPI Photo)
Vernon Scott, UPI's Hollywood reporter, interviews Marilyn Monroe in 1953.
Faye Loyd of UPI covers the Ohio State-Purdue college football game Nov. 13, 1954, from the press box at Rose-Ade Stadium in Lafayette, Ind. At right is Kurt Freudenthal of UPI Indianapolis Bureau. Loyd was barred from the press section of the Army-Yale game the previous week and had to cover the game from the stands. (UPI Photo)
Unidentified woman sends United Press newspicture in 1956. Within 15 minutes, a print is ready to send over the coast-to-coast UP Telephoto wire network and an operator slips it into the Transceiver machine for transmission. (UP Photo)
Bikini Island nuclear testing (From memoirs of Frank Batholomew, president of UP/UPI 1955-1962).
Mamie Eisenhower samples a piece of birthday cake at a joint birthday celebration given in her honor on Oct. 19, 1959 by the Women's National Press Club. The luncheon marked the 40th anniversary of the club, and prematurely celebrated Mrs. Eisenhower's 63rd birthday which fell on Nov. 14. At left is Helen Thomas of United Press International, who was the club's president. (UPI Photo)
UPI legendary President Hugh Baillie
Another UPI Legend -- A. Mims Thomason.
UPI presents an album of pictures of the 1960 presidential campaign to President Kennedy at the White House. Left to right are George Gaylin, UPI WAP manager; Frank Tremaine, UPI Vice President and General Newspictures Manager; Kennedy; Stanley Tretick, UPI photographer on the Kennedy campaign; Frank H. Bartholomew, president of UPI; and Harold Blumenfeld, UPI Executive Picture Editor. (UPI Photo)
Beaten Freedom Rider. William F. H. Barbee, 19, a student at the Baptist Seminary in Nashville, Tenn., tells UPI correspondent Patrick Harden how he was beaten senseless during a race riot at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Montgomery, Ala., the day before, on May 20, 1961. Barbee was hospitalized for multiple bruises and deep cuts. (UPI Photo)
Dan Guralt: New York cables desk, 1962-64. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds)
Japanese actress Shirley Yamaguchi and her U.S.-born sculptor-husband, Isamu Noguchi, are interviewed by UPI correspondent Robert Ahier (L) in Paris, after the American Embassy announced that the U. S. State Department was refusing the young actress a visa for entry into the United States. No explanation was given for the refusal. (UPI Photo)
Cover of The Wire God, a book based on United Press.
The Kansas City Milkman, another book based on the wire service.
About the author of The Kansas City Milkman.
Intro to The Kansas City Milkman.
Evolution of United Press
RCA Victor 45 RPM record of the 'UPI March', as performed by the Cities Services Band of America under the direction of Paul LaValle. (Courtesy of Allan Papkin).
Frank H. Bartholomew (L), president of UPI, interviews East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht (R) on May 27, 1959. Man in center is unidentified interpreter. (UPI Photo)
UPI's Charles J. McCarty (L) accepts the National Press Photographers Association's U.S. Camera-Charles Rosecrans Memorial Award from chairman Bob Boyde during June 19, 1959 NPPA Convention at Miami Beach. McCarty, UPI's Southwestern Division Manager, shot the prize-winning picture (held by Boyde) of an African-American schoolboy striking a white boy during the 1958 school integration crisis in Little Rock, Ark. (UPI Photo)
Eddie Fisher (C), is accompanied by Mike Todd Jr. (L), and UPI Hollywood reporter Vernon Scott as the singer arrives at the county court in Las Vegas on May 12, 1959, to obtain a divorce from Debbie Reynolds. After the divorce, Fisher wed actress Elizabeth Taylor at Temple Beth Shalom in Vegas. (UPI Photo)
Boston UPI bureau circa early 1960s.
A photograph of Marilyn Monroe riding an elephant is wrapped around the drum of a UPI "Telephoto" machine, an early type of a fax machine that used early photocopier technology, enabling the sending of picture data over phone lines, and turning UPI into a "wire service." (UPI Photo)
A UPI "Unifax" machine, an early type of a fax machine that used early photocopier technology, enabling the sending of picture data over telephone lines. (UPI Photo)
Three managers from UPI have an outdoor conference outside the Atlantic City Convention Center as some people watch and others walk by unnoticing. From left are: Charles J. McCarty, George Gaylin and Harold Blumenfeld. (UPI Photo)
The Ambassadors of Latin American nations which President Eisenhower would visit in February 1960 were honor guests at a luncheon of the Woman's National Press Club. Left to right are club president Helen Thomas, UPI; Ruth Hagy, ABC, Luncheon Chairman; Ambassador Walter Muller of Chile; and Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa of Nicaragua, dean of the diplomatic corps. (UPI Photo)
UPI Photo desk at the 1960 Olympics in Mexico City. Ted Majeski is presiding over the pix desk with arms folded; Billy Lyon is at left, sitting sideways in his chair. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds).
UPI Legend Merriman Smith shown discussing upcoming events with President Kennedy on Nov. 25, 1960, after Kennedy visited his wife at the Georgetown Hospital. (UPI Photo)
UPI reporter Helen Thomas interviews President-elect John F. Kennedy at Georgetown University Hospital, during Kennedy's visit to his wife, Jacqueline, on Dec. 1, 1960. (UPI Photo)
Atlanta Bureau Circa 1960 L-R: ME Steve Stephens; chief operator operator Charlie Biddulph, standing on table; operator Sam Field; unnamed female operator; operator Bill Rokos, standing on table; unnamed copy boy; Rounelle Martin, with the knife; Jim Russell, who left UPI for the Miami News; unnamed newswoman -- Bill Tucker's "protege"; operator Emory Cain Bill Tucker -- with big smile standing just behind his protege); Joan, receptionist; photographer Emil Morone; newsman Chuck Spurgeon Taylor; Al Kuettner, bureau manager.)
UPI at Ballpark in Atlanta. L-R: Jack Wilkinson, Bobby Ray Miller, Bill Tome (Georgia state manager), Dave Moffit. Standing to the right (behind m19asr teletype) are L-R: Bruce Bakke (division news editor) and Toby Smith.
UPI Photo of presentation of album of UPI campaign photos to President Kennedy in 1961 (From memoirs of Frank Batholomew, president of UPI/UPI 1955-1962).
President Kennedy strolls in a White House corridor with UPI White House Correspondent Merriman Smith (R). (UPI Photo)
Cocktail Party? In September 1961, AP's Bob Berrellez (drink in hand), UPI's Matt Kenny and playboy-turned-dictator Ramfis Trujillo chat in Ciudad Trujillo (now Santo Domingo).
UPI teletype machine, as shown in photograph from August 1961. (UPI Photo)
UPI teletype machine, (circa 1961). (UPI Photo)
UPI Honchos (From memoirs of Frank Batholomew)
Lyle C. Wilson (L), Washington general manager and vice president of UPI, chats with William D. Hassett (C), former press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Arthur Krock (R) of The New York Times during a dinner in honor of Wilson at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 1962. Wilson was honored by his friends and associates, for his 40 years of service with UPI. (UPI Photo)
Diahann Carroll, star of the Broadway hit, "No Strings," interviewed by UPI reporter Charles Justice, in her Central Park West apartment. She was 27 years old at the time. (UPI Photo)
Bill Laffler: New York general desk, 1962-64.
Bill Laffler: New York general desk, 1962-64. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds)
Pete Johnston: New York general desk, 1962-64. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds)
Don Rettig: New York general desk, 1962-64.
Doug Anderson: New York cables desk, 1962-64. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds)
Bo Northrup: New York cables desk, 1962-64. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds)
Dan Guralt: New York cables desk, 1962-64. (Courtesy of Marty McReynolds)
The late Joe Holloway Jr. (in white shirt to right of helmeted state trooper) in Tuscaloosa to cover Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963.
UPI photographers covering the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in March 1965. From left, (man in hat unidentified), Bruno Torres, Joe Holloway and Sam Parrish. The march stretched for 54 miles along U.S. 80 and lasted five days. Viola Liuzzo of Detroit was murdered the night the march ended, ambushed by KKK while driving marchers back to Selma. There's a marker along the highway now that marks the spot where she was shot to death. (Courtesy of Bruno Torres)
The Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marchers, including Dr. Martin Luther King (R) and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy (2nd from left) enter the St. Jude Hospital grounds in Montgomery where they camped on their last night out. King led the marchers on March 25, 1965, the last four miles to the state Capitol. (UPI Photo)
The late Joe Holloway Jr. in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to cover Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's stand in the door at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. Holloway was chief photographer of The Montgomery Advertiser in the 1950s, then worked for UPI in Raleigh and Atlanta before joining The AP sometime in the 1970s. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's "stand" in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. This is a photo of Wallace entering a motel in Tuscaloosa. Surrounding cast includes (1) Wallace; (2) Lonnie Falk, then a student at UA; (3) UPI's Gary Haynes of UPI-Atlanta and assorted other bureaus, later Times and Inquirer editor; (4) Rex Thomas of AP-MG; (5) Gerald Wallace, the governor's brother; (6) Ralph Roton, Klan member, official and head of self-styled Klan Bureau of Investigation. Also standing behind state trooper on the far left is Tuscaloosa businessman Bert Bank, a survivor of the Bataan Death March who was later elected to the Alabama Senate. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Attorney General Nick Katzenbach walks away after the first initial staged rebuff by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, who has stepped back into the doorway at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. Katzenback is to the left of the man in white shoes. Immediately under TV camera is UPI photographer Bill Lyon. To the left just above the trooper's helmet and Wallace is Clarke Stallworth, now retired from the Birmingham Post-Herald. Lt. Gov. Albert Brewer (who would later become governor) is standing below the man in the dark shirt, wearing sunglasses with cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Also, kneeling in white shirt with cameras (between Gerald Wallace and Katzenback) is veteran UPI stringer Tommy Giles of Montgomery. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Atlanta UPI civil rights reporter Al Kuettner, left, talking with white supremacist J.B. Stoner, at a Birmingham school in September 1963. Kuettner departed UPI not long afterwards to work for Moral Rearmament. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Helen Thomas, standing in front of the White House with a note pad. Original caption: President Nixon teased UPI's Helen Thomas about wearing slacks to the White House and made it clear that he prefers dresses on women. Here, Thomas, wearing white pants, a Navy blue jersey shirt, long white beads and Navy blue patent leather shoes with red trim, is shown outside the north portico of the White House. (UPI Photo)
Birmingham, Ala., UPI bureau, circa 1963. The bureau was located in the offices of the now-defunct Birmingham Post-Herald. (Courtesy of Alvin Benn)
UPI reporter Al Kuettner interviewing three young women who had integrated Jones Valley High School in Birmingham in September 1963. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
UPI photographer Bill Lyon (white shirt with cameras draped around his neck) shown covering funeral in Birmingham for three of the four girls killed in the September 15, 1963, church bombing. Lyon worked in Atlanta from the late 1940s through the 70s when he became head of UPI Newspictures. He left UPI in the early 1980s, and was working for AP when he died. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Bill Lyon (white shirt) covers funeral for church bombing victims in Birmingham in 1963. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Helen Thomas of UPI grabs President Johnson for a comment after Johnson and his wife had returned to Washington, D.C., from dedicating the George C. Marshall Research Library at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., on May 23, 1964. (UPI Photo)
UPI reporter John Lynch of Montgomery bureau talks with The Rev. T.Y. Rogers on June 9, 1964, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Rogers was leading demonstrations to protest "white only" signs on new Tuscaloosa County Courthouse bathroom doors. Rogers was arrested after he refused to call off demonstrations. About 90 were arrested, including Jim Bevel. Police clubbed demonstrators off the courthouse stairs, used fire hoses and tossed tear gas inside the church. A federal judge ordered the signs taken down on June 26, 1964. Rogers' First African Baptist Church is now one of the historic civil rights sites listed by National Park Service. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange (R), throws the switch to activate the newly installed "900" ticker system prior to the opening of the market on Dec. 1, 1964. The new system transmitted stock sales and information nearly twice as fast as the one that was in place. It handled about 150 transactions per minute. Looking on is Edward De Laura, planning and development chief at the stock exchange. (UPI Photo)
UPI reporter Warren Wilson phones in his story from the Watts area of Los Angles early Aug. 13, 1965, following bitter rioting in the area that began with the arrest of a black man on DUI charges by a white LAPD officer. Wilson dressed in a torn shirt with the tail hanging out of work trousers mingled in the crowd, and said he witnessed the stomping and stoning of a white man that tried to drive through the area. (UPI Photo)
Betsy Halstead, UPI's girl in Saigon, returns to America for a vacation after working in Viet Nam for 10 months with her husband, Dirck Halstead, the UPI newspicture manager in Viet Nam. Betsy, 23, is probably the youngest and one of the few women correspondents covering the war. This photo was shot on Dec. 4, 1965. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Joe Marquette -- in a good example of the wire service photographer and his luxurious road transmission facility -- circa 1967 – at Jackson Hole, WY, where he was covering a ski meet in the days of Jean-Claude Killy. (Courtesy of Bob Cox)
Dressed in fatigues and with cameras slung around his neck, UPI photographer Dana Stone moves out with a U.S. 1st Cavalry Division reconnaissance patrol near Phu Cat in Vietnam in October 1966. Stone recorded much of the suffering of the calvarymen wounded in jungle warfare. (UPI Photo)
Introductory note from UPI Editor Roger Tatarian to 28-page undated booklet entitled For the Beginning Unipresser. (This material, which will be posted in piecemeal, all courtesy of Lewis Lord)
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Lonnie Falk at BX bureau (photo probably made by Joe Chapman) in 1960s.)
UPI's Al Benn (far right in dark overcoat) covering NASA rocket scientist Werner von Braun at Miles College in Birmingham during (probably in 1966). Benn worked for UPI in BX in the 1960s. (Courtesy of Joe Chapman)
UPI Audio stars (L-R) Scott Peters, Pete Willett and Frank Sciortino
UPI booth at Inter-American Press Association meeting in Lima, Peru, in October 1966.
UPI photographer Kyoichi Sawada (L) grins after viewing congratulatory signs upon his return from seven days in the war zone. Sawada won top prize for the second straight year for news photography at the 10th annual World Press Photo exhibition. This photo was shot on Dec. 19, 1966. (UPI Photo)
1967 letter written by Roy Mehlman, director of Compix, Commercial Photography Division of United Press International (Compliments of Tommy Giles)
UPI photo crew at Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, 1967. (Top photo, L-R)Daryl Heikes, Bruno Torres, Pete Cosgrove, unidentified, Gary Bartlett, Albert Bellerive, Pete Harris and Joe Marquette. (Bottom photo L-R) Heikes, unidentified, Gary Bartlett (seated on floor) Pete Cosgrove, Al Bellerive, Joe Marquette, Dirk Halstead, Pete Harris and Bruno Torres. (Courtesy of Bruno Torres).
California Gov. Ronald Reagan addressing 8th annual conference of United Press International Editors and Publishers on Sept. 19, 1967, in San Francisco. (UPI Photo)
UPI Promo (On our play on the Apollo I fire in 1967.)
UPI Photographer Rikio Imajo stands by chopper in Vietnam.
President Lyndon Johnson with the press at a news conference in the Oval Office. Helen Thomas of United Press International is at the rear with a pad and pen. Merriman Smith of UPI is third from right, without glasses. (Photo by Wally McNamee)
Armed with a battery of cameras UPI's Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kyoichi Sawada covers the battle of Hill 875 in the highlands near Dak To in November 1967. (UPI Photo)
Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer Kyoichi Sawada, wearing fatigues on Hill 875 while working for UPI during the Vietnam War. This photo was shot on Nov. 22, 1967 near Dak To. (UPI Photo)
Jerry Soloway, a UPI photographer, was struck in the face with a cup full of sand or concrete while covering an anti-war demonstration in New York on Dec. 6, 1967. (UPI Photo)
Kyoichi Sawada, UPI photographer in Vietnam, shown emerging from the jungle in the combat area in December 1967. (UPI Photo)
With Los Angeles weather in the 80s, UPI photographer Dave Kennerly tries out a skateboard on his way to work on Christmas Day. Most of the United States was experiencing or expecting freezing weather. (UPI Photo)
Kate Webb, UPI reporter, shown in an undated photograph, at a refugee camp for Vietnamese children. (UPI Photo)
UPI promo in Broadcasting from Jan. 22, 1968. (Courtesy of Robert Gordon)
UPI staff photographer Rikio Imajo, takes time to write in a book in a photo shot in Vietnam on Jan. 23, 1968. (UPI Photo)
Kate Webb (shown in 1968 filer), UPI bureau manager in Phnom Penh, and four other people were officially reported missing April 8, 1968, after being caught in an area overrun by communist troops. (UPI Photo)
1968 UPI Stylebook cover. Cover is actually seventh (1972) printing of 1968 stylebook, with editorial supervision by Jesse C. Bogue and foreword by UPI Editor Roger Tatarian.
Foreword for 1968 UPI Stylebook.
UPI Bob Musel promo in E&P from Jan. 27, 1968.
Second part - Bob Musel promo in E&P from Jan. 27, 1968.
UPI Doc Quigg promo in E&P from Feb. 3, 1968.
UPI promo in E&P from April 20, 1968.
UPI promo in E&P from June 15, 1968.
UPI promo in Broadcasting from June 17, 1968.
UPI promo in Broadcasting from July 15, 1968.
Pat Nixon (R) and UPI's Helen Thomas clasp each other's hands as they meet early at a "Fashion, Fame and Fantasy" ladies' luncheon given by the host Florida GHOP Committee on Aug. 6, 1968. (UPI Photo)
Independent president candidate George Wallace addressed the 9th annual conference of the United Press International Editors and Publishers in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 1968. Seated beside Wallace are his running mate, Curtis E. LeMay (L) and Tom Beardman, editor of the Cleveland Press. (UPI Photo)
UPI promo in E&P from Nov. 16, 1968.
UPI promo in Broadcasting from Dec. 9, 1968.
Carlos Padilla in the Buenos Aires bureau, around 1968. (courtesy of Mary McReynolds).
UPI Photographer Kyoichi Sawada with Moshe Dyan in Vietnam.
The Cartoon "America, America" from The Saturday Evening Post.
Shown here, left to right, on May 19, 1969, are Charlotte Curtis, of The New York Times Edition; Katherine Graham of The Washington Post Publishers; Melvin R. Laird, U.S. Defense Secretary; Shana Alexander, of the McCall's Edition; and Helen Thomas, UPI White House correspondent, attending the Journalism Achievement Awards Banquet and Costume Ball in Washington, D.C. (UPI Photo)
Unidentified UPI employees at work in New York bureau. Photo taken on Aug. 27, 1969. (UPI Photo)
UPI United Nations Bureau pictures, 1969 (Courtesy of Ted Stannard)
1969 UPI Broadcast Stylebook cover. No staffers were credited.
Foreword for 1969 UPI Broadcast Stylebook.
Boston bureau early 1970s.
Saigon building where UPI had its bureau, circa 1970. This photo was taken in 1999 by Ken Englade. The building has been converted into a restaurant, but Ken says it looks the same as it did 30 years ago.
Late Lonnie Falk, far right, hosting "Newsprobe" on Alabama Public Television in 1970. From Falk's right are Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, Joe Chapman and the news director of WSGN in Birmingham. (Courtesy of Lonnie Falk)
The Beeptones (circa 1970), featuring NX Audio staffers Ed Kerins (piano), Stan Sabik (sax) and Frank Sciortino (drums).
Front cover of UPI promotional booklet for clients from the early 1970s (Courtesy of Enrique Durand)
Kent Potter, UPI photographer, standing in front of a hillside view of a Vietnamese town near Saigon in March 1970. (UPI Photo)
UPI correspondent Kyoichi Sawada stands outside the Royal Hotel after returning from a Viet Cong checkpoint on the highway to Takeo, where he was held prisoner, along with fellow correspondent Robert Miller, for eight hours on May 23, 1970. They said that the Viet Cong detained them at a roadside checkpoint about 30 miles South of Phnom Penh, then allowed them to return to the Cambodian capital. (UPI Photo)
UPI correspondents Kyoichi Sawada and Robert Miller stand outside the Royal Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on May 24, 1970, after returning from a Viet Cong checkpoint on the highway to Takeo, where they were held prisoner for eight hours on May 23. They said that the Viet Cong "courteously" detained them at a roadside checkpoint about 30 miles south of Phnom Penh, then allowed them to return to the Cambodian capital. (UPI Photo)
Helen Thomas of UPI is shown in her office in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 19, 1970. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Dana Stone has this photo shot of himself near Saigon in January 1971. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Kent Potter, cameras around his neck, walks away from a helicopter, at Khe Sanh, Vietnam. Photo was taken on Feb. 2, 1971. (UPI Photo)
Undated photo of New York UPI newsroom. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Dave Kennerly stands atop a stand-bagged gun emplacement Firebase Gladiator in Vietnam. Photo shot on April 25, 1971. (UPI Photo)
Piece of A-wire copy of story in May 1971 that won "Lead of the Week" which meant a little extra in the weekly paycheck. HLS is obviously H.L. Stevenson. Copy was mailed to WTO/KP who was William T. (Bill) Osthoff, UPI bureau manager in KP. Story got good play because editors were hungry for news on Truman even if there wasn't any news on Truman, who died the following year. Paul Haney of KP was at Research Hospital in KP the morning after Christmas and called NX with the flash "Former President Truman dead." Former presidents got 10 bell treatment when they died. (Courtesy of Paul Haney)
UPI data machine. This is a photo made in August 1971 of UPI's Dataspeed Unistox Service machine.
UPI Kansas City (KP) bureau in 1971. Front to back: Ted Bell, Pat Hand, Paul Haney. (Photo courtesy of Paul Haney).
UPI reporter Paul Haney (right) interviews Spiro Agnew as he prepares to depart Kansas City Municipal Airport in 1971 on Air Force 2 after visiting ailing former President Harry S Truman in Independence, Mo. It was an exclusive interview but UPI Audio thought the sound quality was below standard so the New York desker wouldn't accept it as an actuality feed. Agnew quotes from tape were used for A-wire story.
UPI Kansas City 1971. Front to back: Reporters Margaret "Maggie" Richards, Paul Haney, Pat Hand and Ted Bell, and Chief Operator Harry Cappell.
UPI staff photographer Dave Kennerly tries on an Indian soldier's steel helmet on Dec. 9, 1971, in Jhikargai, East Pakistan, while covering the India-Pakistan War, as he prepares to follow the Indian troops advancing on Dacca. (UPI Photo)
UPI staff photographer Dave Kennerly sitting atop a wall while resting during the India-East Pakistan War on Dec. 16, 1971. (UPI Photo)
UPI retirement party for Margaret "Maggie" Richards (right). L-R: Robert E. Crennen, Southwest Division manager; Linda Haney, wife of KP bureau manager Paul Haney; Sam Hales, KP-based regional executive for Missouri and Kansas. Early 1970s (probably 1971 or 1972). Maggie had worked in the KP bureau with Walter Cronkite in the 1940s and had been with the wire service since the early 1930s. She was bureau secretary in the early 1930s at the time of the Kansas City Union Station Massacre. She was changing buses at Union Station when machine gun fire broke out. Called in the bulletin and was a UPI reporter from that moment on.
Charles J. McCarty was named European Newspictures Editor for UPI in December 1971. McCarty, veteran UPI picture editor, had held executive positions in San Francisco, Dallas, and New York, and had been assistant general manager of the newspictures service of UPI for eight years. McCarty was based in Brussels, Belgium, after March 1, 1972. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Dieter Hespe (L) of Frankfurt and editor Charles McCarty converse on May 21, 1972, in Red Square in preparation for President Nixon's visit to Moscow. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Willie Vicoy is covered with mud after being pinned down by North Vietnamese soldiers 40 miles southwest of Saigon. Vicoy narrowly escaped being killed by the communists while covering South Vietnamese troops operating in the area on Aug. 25, 1972. (UPI Photo)
UPI staff photographer Willie Vicoy (L) and unidentified companion take a break, resting against a military vehicle in Vietnam 1973. (UPI Photo)
Austin bureau's very sparse inventory of May 17, 1973 - signed by bureau manager Roland Lindsey.
Marci Barak enjoys a ride on Lonnie Falk's back across the "First Desk" at UPR in Chicago. Ira Allen is looking on.
The late Lonnie Falk was "UPI Man at the Scene" when Lunar Receiving Lab returned with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins after Apollo 11 (first landing on the Moon). NASA popped the astronauts into this thing on the carrier, which picked them up for fear they would bring space germs back from the moon. We used the walkie-talkie (borrowed from UPI Newspictures folks) even though the whole thing was on closed circuit feed from NASA. Looked impressive, at least. (Courtesy of Lonnie Falk)
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Harris 1600 from a photo in the manual.
Keyboard on Harris 1600 from a photo in the manual.
Drawing of Walter Logan by Dick Growald, who did it for the fun of it and then he would give them to other staffers. (Courtesy of Enrique Durand)
Another drawing of Walter Logan by Dick Growald. (Courtesy of Enrique Durand)
A third drawing of Walter Logan by Dick Growald. (Courtesy of Enrique Durand)
Drawing of Helen Thomas by Dick Growald.
UPI Audio Washington Correspondent Dennis Kahane interviews Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. George McGovern on the campaign trail in 1972. In Kahane's lapel is a UPI button.
Helen Thomas of UPI is shown with Henry Kissinger at Washington Press Club on Jan. 26, 1972. (UPI Photo)
UPI Photographer Dirck Halstead (with telephoto lens) and others while on trip to China with President Nixon in February 1972. (UPI Photo)
UPI photographer Dirck Halstead processing film in the bathroom of a Chinese hotel during President Nixon's visit to China in February 1972. (UPI Photo)
Election Night 1972 in the Washington bureau. (Foreground, back of office aide Glenn Jackson; facing him operator . . . Dooley. between Glenn and Dooley, operator Greg Eaton; standing behind dooley, operator Don Parise; sitting at console in red shirt, Grant Dillman; standing beyond grant, Howard Fields. On right, seated are Steve Gerstel, standing Leon Burnett, and the arm of Stan Hall.
Washington Bureau. Standing is John Vogt. At switchboard is Elsie Holecko; seated behind Vogt is operator Willie Olds. Seated in the rear is Fred Parker, then Middle Atlantic Division manager. Man with back turned is Ira Allen.
WA Bureau. Judy Frei, George Marder. Along back, left to right, Dave Anderson, Norm Kempster and Mike Feinsilber.
Washington Bureau. Front to back, Ed Rogers, Howard fields, Drew von Bergen, Ed Dooley, and -- possibly -- the nose of Juan Walte.
Washington Bureau. Seated Bill Barrett; standing Grant Dillman; possibly Leon Burnett's daughter, Bitsy Williams, on left. In background, appears to be Dave Anderson; seated is Ron Cohen, and with back to camera, Stan Hall.
WA Bureau. On left under WCNS sign is operator Greg Eaton; may be Dave Wiessler in red shirt in background; seated in white shirt is Don Lambro; in blue shirt is Bill Barrett; seated with Barrett is Travis Hughes; behind that group in blue shirt is Elmer Lammi;standing on right is Bob McNeil, and seated under clock is Willie Olds.
WA Bureau. Travis Hughes is on the left; Stan Hall standing, Grant Dillman seated behind Hall on right and Bill Barrett seated on left; to right of Dillman is Bob McNeil; to right of McNeil is Don Lambro; standing under TV is Steve Gerstel on left and Leon Burnett on right; seated in front of Burnett is Bob Taylor.
WA Bureau. Seated at teletype is Willie Olds; standing over Olds is Dave Rosso; in background on front of mail boxes is chief technician Jerry Eldrige.
WA Bureau. Left to right in foreground: Ed Rogers, Dave Anderson, Gene Bernhardt and Liz Wharton; on other side of table in bright red shirt is Roy McGee, in pink shirt is Nick Daniloff.
Florida UPI promo from 1972.
Florida UPI promo II from 1972.
UPI Audio's London facility in 1973. If you look hard enough, you can see the old cross-hair UPI logo on a decal in the middle of the audio mixer on the right side of picture.
UPI photographer Willie Vicoy leans against a truck in Vietnam in 1973. (UPI Photo)
The Chester Desk (circa 1973> with Frank Tremaine showing off to a client the new computers UPI was using for its service south of the border. From left, sitting at front of the computer, Chester Desk chief Enrique Durand, deskers Jose Arvizu, Roy Centeno and Abel Dimant. (Courtesy of Enrique Durand)
General view of New York UPI bureau in March 1973. (UPI Photo)
The Santiago, Chile, bureau of United Press International took some 180 rounds on Sept. 11-12, during the aftermath of the coup d'etat led by Commander of the Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (UPI Photo)
Part of UPI flash when Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president on Oct. 10, 1973 (courtesty of Jerry McGinn).
Selections from 1973-75 (Outstanding Unipresser contributors too numerous to list; courtesy of Bill Ryan).
Celebration in 1974. (L-R: Lou Carr, Jimmy Darr, Walter Logan, Edie Cahill, Al Bruce, Don Mullen, Mike Hughes, Travis Hughes (mostly hidden behind Hughes) and Jeff Grigsby. Occasion was second anniversary of installation of the IS&R at UPI . Two cakes were sitting on National Desk in WA and photo was taken March 6, 1974. (Photo from Travis Hughs files via Wieck Photo DataBase)
Helen Thomas, who has covered Washington for UPI for 30 years, the last 14 at the White House, was designated March 5, 1974, as UPI White House Reporter. The title was originated with the late Merriman Smith, and has gone unused since his death in 1970. Thomas who was born in Winchester, Ky., will be the first woman to head up the presidential coverage of a major news service. (UPI Photo)
Tom Foty (left) transmits news feed from New York Audio in 1974; editor Roger Norum works on later material.
1974 WSG Strike Against UPI. Austin staffers Frank Elmore Griffis, left, and Andy Yemma, picket inside the Texas Capitol.
UPI photographer Frank Cancellare (L), and John Duricka of The Associated Press (R), jostle for position while photographing President Ford at the White House. (UPI Photo)
1974 WSG Strike Against UPI. San Francisco staffers John Leighty, Bob Lurati, Clark McKinley and Lloyd Carter outside the SX bureau in Fox Plaza, Market and 9th streets. (Courtesy, Lloyd Carter.)
President Ford is interviewed by UPI's Helen Thomas during the president's Dec. 26, 1974, vacation in Vail, Colo. (UPI Photo)
Vietnam -- April, 1975 UPI Audio correspondent Bill Reilly and Asian News Editor Leon Daniel, Xuan Loc, Vietnam, 4/16/1975, two weeks before fall of Saigon. (From the 2003 book UNIPRESS, by Richard M. Harnett and Billy G. Ferguson.)
Willy Vicoy, UPI Photographer working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, carries a little Cambodian girl from a Navy boat that brought her and her family from Chrouy Chang Island after heavy rocketing on March 22, 1975. (UPI Photo)
Willy Vicoy, UPI Photographer sporting a Hawaiian shirt in Saigon on March 25, 1975. (UPI Photo)
President Ford visiting the press section aboard Air Force One, leans in to respond to a question by UPI's Helen Thomas on March 30, 1975. Ford was in Palm Springs for a nine day working vacation. (UPI Photo)
Margaret Truman Daniel, (R) presents the Communications Award to Helen Thomas, UPI White House reporter, at the Awards presentation ceremony of the Ladies' Home Journal in New York City on April 20, 1975. Eight women were honored by the magazine as "Women of the Year," for 1975. (UPI Photo)
This photo was taken by Don Brydon, UPI general executive based in Chicago. At far left is Bill Lyon, VP-newspictures.; middle is Ray Macchini, veteran HX photographer and head photographer; between Macchini and Haney with his head turned away is Bob Kieckhefer; Paul Haney of KP bureau is on the right. Photo was taken at the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye newspaper, which was first paper in the world to order Unifax-II. (Courtesy of Paul Haney)
Facing Media. Martin McReynolds (L, in pin-stripe suit) and Claude Hippeau meet local reporters in Bogota, Columbia, in July 1976 after leaving the presidential palace. They had called on President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen to apologize for the erroneous UPI dispatch that reported his assassination.
1976 Montreal Olympics UPI photographers included Ron Kuntz, Gary Edwards, Ray Foli, Lana Harris, Les Sintay and Mike Pugh. (Courtesy of Bruno Torres -- need more IDs)
1976 Montreal Olympics More UPI photographers included Bob Schnitzlein, Charlie McCarty, Ted Majeski, Bill Lyon, Daryl Heikes, Gary Edwards, Alan Papkin, Ray Foli, Ron Kuntz, Les Sintay, Bruno Torres and Mike Pugh.
Former President Gerald Ford models a gag T-shirt for UPI reporter Helen Thomas and his wife Betty (R). The shirt says "Old Fords Never Die, They Just Go Faster." The Fords are living in a rented Palm Springs home until his new house is built. (UPI Photo)
UPI reporter Frank Csongos interviewed anthropologist Margaret Mead in an apartment overlooking Lincoln Center on Dec. 12, 1977. (Photo by Andrew Lopez)
Cover of 1977 UPI Stylebook, compiled and edited by Bobby Ray Miller.
Foreword for 1977 UPI Stylebook.
"Dr. Darkness' "UPI Night Writers". This was UPI Texas state editor Frank Cook's Dallas softball team (circa 1977). Back row (L-R) Ed Fulton, John Yemma, Richard Boggs, Ray Perez, Bob Inderman and Bill Trott. Front row (L-R) Gary Edwards, Cassie Cohen, Joe Domek, Paula Butterini, Steve Holmes, Pat Remick and Steve Reed. Seated in front is Cook. (Courtesy of Bill Ryan)
Marty Locker, wearing green eye shade, in Atlanta bureau in 1977 just after switching from operator to newsside. (Courtesy of BIll Ryan)
UPI Paycheck stub from Dec. 31, 1977, for Steven Wagner of Boise bureau.
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