De Soto County (LST 1171) - Naval Cruise Book

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Friday - 21 August 1964 tCon'tJ 1000 1130 1300 1500 1730 Met with Dick Geisel, Program Director, WHK radio. Taped a 30-second spot and a 5-minute news inter- view. Placed a news release with the WHK News Director. Placed spots and a news release at WGAR radio, and arranged for interviews to be taped on board ship. Put together material for a feature story on the Norwegian ship Christian Radich and the DeSoto County. We then placed this story at both major news papers and the three TV stations. Taped .a 15Qminute interview with Bill Stickler at WABC radio and placed 30-second spots and a news release at that station. Saturday - 22 August 1964 0900 1030 1300 1600 2300 Met with the president of Cine-Kraft Studios and arranged for a stereo taping session with the choral group. Also arranged for duplicate tapes to be made of previous recordings. Met with the Director of the Cleveland City Parks program and discussed arranging a game for the ship's softball team. c Contacted all media and alerted them to the fact that the DeSoto County's arrival was delayed until 2300. Met the DeSoto County on arrival and discussed the Cleveland schedule with the ship's officers. Sunday - 23 August 1964 Supervised media coverage of various activities taking place aboard ship throughout the day - part- icularly the Karate team and UDT demonstrations in the afternoon. For additional information, consult the ship's schedule of events for the Cleveland visit. Monday - 24 August 1964 0900 Conducted a press conference aboard ship for Vice Admiral McCain. -30- - . .':. mu vm. :-:r - :e . . '. -. :- snailii aiznusxms.-:5.:4:,v

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Monday - 24 August 1964 tCon'tD 1100 1200 1400 1545 Helped make arrangements for GEN Wallace M. Greene's 1200 press conference, Attended press conference for CMC, GEN Greene, Aided members of the press intheir coverage of the Karate, team and UDT demonstrations. Supervised media coverage of the Commandant of .the Marine Corpsv visit aboard DeSoto County., Tuesday - 25 August 1964 -and- Wednesday - 26 August 1964 Refer to the ship's schedule of events for information concerning this two-day period. During this time, LCDR Ellis and LT Stack conducted administrative activlties in the ship's PI office, Thursday - 27 August,1964 1000. 2100 2200 Departed Cleveland for Oswego, N. Y., Arrived in Oswego, N, Y, , Met with SGT Shandorp local Marine recruiter, and two officers of the Oswego Marine Corps League., Discussed details concerning the DeSoto Countyls visit., Friday - 28 August 1964 0800 0930 1100 1245 .Met with LCDR A. J, Ketcher, CO NRTC and Oswego Project Officer., Made plans for contacting local. media and discussed a tentative schedule. Placed a news release and 30-second spot- with Mr, Cliff Harris , WSGO radio station manager, Also arranged for -a 30-minute live broadcast aboard ship, Placed a feature story in the Sunday edition of the Syracuse Herald Journal and arranged for the paper to cover shipboard activities, Met with Mr., Gorman, editor of Syracuse Post Standard., Placed a news story and arranged for a sports feature on LTJG Mather., -31- - W - -- ' '-:man-.1 nzunnu-.new