Presidential advisors

Participants in the television program "Battle Report - Washington" pose for a photograph. Standing, from left to right: John R. Steelman, producer of the show for the Truman Administration; Mary S. Markward; William Bridgeman; Vice Admiral E.L. [illegible] (ret); Assistant Secretary of State George C. McGhee. Robert McCormick, NBC's Washington Manager of TV News and Special Events is seated.

Participants in the television program "Battle Report - Washington" pose for a photograph. Standing, from left to right: Colonel William Bertram, United States Air Force; Captain Gernard Dean, United States Army; unidentified man; Major Carl Sitter, United States Marine Corps; David Brinkley, NBC newscaster and Major Reginald Myers, United States Marine Corps. John R. Steelman, producer of the show for the Truman Administration is seated.

Participants in the "Battle Report - Washington" program pose for a photograph on the set of the show. Standing, from left to right: Marine Colonel Homer Litzenberd; Lieutenant Commander Estelle [last name illegible]; Robert McCormick, NBC's Washington Manager of TV News and Special Events; George J. Schoeneman, Internal Revenue Service; Henry J. Byroade, Director German Affairs, Department of State, and Colonel Stephen Y. McGiffert. John R. Steelman, the producer of the show for the Truman Administration, is seated.

Participants in the program "Battle Report - Washington" pose for a photograph. Standing, from left to right: Ted Ayers; Rommy G. Vildzius; Kenneth Wells; Millard Caldwell; John W. Gibson; David Brinkley; Ludumilla Nemec; Major General Roy H. Parker and Rommy G. Vildzius. John R. Steelman, producer of the show for the Truman Administration, is seated.

Stanley Woodward (left) and Press Secretary Charles Ross (second from left) stand next to John R. Steelman (third from left) onboard the USS Missouri as sailors and Navy officers gather for the Crossing the Equator Ceremony. The notation on the back of the photo reads, "Mr. Ross and JRS looking for King Neptune to come aboard." They are on board the USS Missouri with President Harry S. Truman as he returned to the United States from a visit to Brazil. Others in the background are unidentified.

Ted Ayers (standing, left) talks with participants in one of "Battle Report - Washington" programs. Seated from left to right are: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace; Admiral W. F. Halsey; Edwin T. Gibson, Defense Production; Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization. Standing from left to right are: Robert McCormick, NBC Washington Manager of TV News and Special Events and John R. Steelman.

Standing, from left to right, on the set of the television program "Battle Report - Washington" are: Henry Byroade, Director German Affairs, State Department; Ted Ayers; John R. Steelman, producer of the show for the Truman Administration and Bill Wood. Robert McCormick, NBC's Washington Manager of TV News and Special Events is seated at the desk.

Participants in the "Battle Report - Washington" program on NBC are standing on the set. Standing, from left to right: Ted Ayers; Honorable Edward Barrett, Voice of America; John R. Steelman, producer of the show for the Truman Administration; Manly Fleischmann; Bill Wood and Brigadier General George Hamden Olmstead, Foreign Military Aid. Seated is reporter Robert McCormick.

John R. Steelman (fifth from right in front row) stands with a group of unidentified military and civilian personnel in front of a rocket. David Brinkley can bee seen in the back row, left end. Ted Ayers is second from the right on the front row.

John Steelman and others are preparing to film the television program "Battle Report - Washington." Standing, from left to right are: Ted Ayers; Brigadier General F. S. Besson, Jr.; Thomas Cabot; Michael Straus; David Brinkley; and Commodore Robert M. Schwyhart. John R. Steelman, the producer of the program for the Truman Administration, is seated at the desk.