De Soto County (LST 1171) - Naval Cruise Book

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DIARY ADVANCE LIAISON TEAM USS DESOTO COUNTY GREAT LAKES CRUISE JUNE-SEPTEMBER 1964 Monday - 8 June 1964 1030 Departed Norfolk, Virginia 1830 Arrived New York City. Tuesday- 9 June QNew York Cityj 0930 Met with LIFE Magazine Military Editor. Not interested. 1130 Conferred with COMTHREE PIO. 1500 Rendezvoused with LT R. J. Stack, USMC. Wednesday - 10 June 1964 0900 Met with COMTHREE PIO. . 1100 Departed New York City for Ogdensburg. N. Y. 1830 Arrived Ogdensburg, N. Y. LCDR Dunroe, CO NRTC Watertown and Mayor E. J. Kennan, both out of town. Contacted SGT J. S. Rector, USMC. Marine recruiter and established meeting for the following morning. Thursday - 11 June 1964 0900 tMet with SGT Rector and went to Ogdensburg Advance Journal. Results - 120 plus 3 4-column pics used. Also full 22 May release used. 1000 Interviewed on tape at WSLB for a 5-minute interview used twice. WW - 'W' M WFP- V . 4:1 Ti-TCE' - A -fum:iifu9a..x::u.1n.t-4 1 - ii: -'WI' n.tznr5'1:A:auZa.m.1ilk.T-iz1::!iaf?.n1f411-f:.:2u3:.

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Thursday - 11 June QCon'tD w r 1 1130 Departed Ogdensburg for Watertown, N. Y. 1230 Arrived Watertown.. Met with SGT LeBerge. 1300 Interviewed at Watertown Times. 1400 WNNY-TV interviewed on video tape. Five Minutes Used twice. 1430 WWNY radio 5-minute live interview. 1500 WOTT radio 5-minute taped interview. 1600 WCYN-TV interviewed on video tape. Two minutes for news five minutes.for Sunday feature. 1700 Departed Watertown. 2000 Arrived Rochester. Friday- 12 June 1964 qnoehester, N. Y.9 f 0900 Met by LT Hock and proceeded to NRTC .. . 3 Rochester. CO not present. Met with LCDR Sam g Cooper, .USNR-R. 1000 WSAY radio 5-minute tape interview. Promised continuous spot announcements and to re-run y interview daily. , 1030 WHAM radio 10-minute tape interview with Louise ' Wilson to be used on her morning show June 15. She promised daily tape interviews on board during ship visit. 11.15 WHEC-TV one-minutevideo tape interview for evening news. 1 1300 Interviewed by Democrat Chronicle. , 1400 Interviewed by Rochester Times Union. . 1600 WROC-TV one-minute video tape interview. by , Tom Decker for evening news. 1 2000 Conferred with Sam Cooper concerning Karate team I placement on TV and atfdowntown mall plus choral , group and UDT demos. ' 1 Saturday - 13 June 1964 . 0900 Visited NRTC and downtown mall. 1100 Visited Marine Training Center with CAPT C. D. ' Peterson, USMC. 1200 Inspected pier space and beach site for choral group. 5 -2- ,.....-..-.......-..-,......,.,3-1.,,..,..-........u,---KD.T.umu-nnmmmy. mnm,, ,,,,.,' ' '-' x -1- - -- - -4 - - ' f--S - - - f-V . ' ..-1171 1---- , '.m -- I , H ef