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NBC TELEVISION NETWORK NEWS
January 20, 1961
FIRST LIVE TV COVERAGE OF KENNEDY ON INAUGURATION MORNING IS PRESENTED ON ‘DAVE GARROWAY TODAY SHOW1 Program Devotes Entire 2 Hours to Inauguration Preview
The first live television coverage of President-elect Kennedy on Inauguration morning was presented on NBC-TV’s "The Dave Garroway Today Show" today (Friday, Jan. 20) at 8:55 a.m. EST.
NBC television cameras picked up Mr. Kennedy leaving his home in the Georgetown section of Washington to attend mass at Holy Trinity Church. The cameras followed his auto as it approached the church and showed him getting out of the car and entering the church.
"Our cameras have been waiting for that shot, 1 Dave Garroway commented as the President-elect's departure from his home appeared
on TV screens across the nation.
The entire two -hour "Today" program (7-9 a.m. EST) was devoted to the Inauguration, leading off the extensive NBC-TV Network coverage of this important nations.l event. Garroway, accompanied by his son, Michael, 12, and his daughter, Paris, 16, took viewers on a tour of the principal places of interest in the Inauguration Day
activities.
The program opened in front of the Kennedy home, where a neighbor, Mrs. Helen Montgomery, chatted with Garroway and his children and served them coffee. Garroway also talked there with Pat McMahon, whom Mr. Kennedy had rescued after their PT-boat was sunk in World
War II.
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