Tribute to Kennedy
Diocesan Press Service. December 6, 1963 [XVI-4]
"John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Profile in Courage," a 30-minute radio program produced by the Division of Radio, Television and Audio-Visuals in the day and a half after President Kennedy's assassination, has been heard around the world since it first went on the air.
Word of the shooting interrupted a meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Division at the Episcopal Church Center. Members of the committee and the staff joined a move to put a live Viewpoint program on WOR early Sunday and to accept an offer of an additional 30 minutes on the station.
The program "Profile" was produced at the Center by Thomas Freebairn-Smith, committee member and executive director of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. Identified on the program are many Episcopalians directly connected with the late President's life: Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger; the Rt. Rev. John B. Bentley, National Council vice president; the Rev. Seymour St. John, Choate School headmaster; Raymond Massey of Hollywood; Bishop Burrill of Chicago; Bishop Bloy of Los Angeles; Bishop Jones of West Texas; Bishop Stokes of Massachusetts; the Very Rev. Francis Sayre of the Washington Cathedral; entertainer Nat King Cole; Clifford Morehouse, House of Deputies president; Bishop Donegan of New York; and excerpts from a Viewpoint interview of the then Senator Kennedy made four years ago.
After use by WOR, the program has been used by Mutual Network, Voice of America, Armed Forces Radio and many independent stations.