It's going to take a long time to get in. John F. Kennedy knew he looked good on television, and as the new president he wasted no time in exploiting that advantage. So it might seem quite logical that a conspiracy would want to silence him. Comment. 0. What do you have to do? May Craig married Donald A. Craig. Lawrence Spivak described him as “brief, clipped, and forceful,” while Meet the Press panelist May Craig pointed out that, “he was good to … To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. writing for the Guy Gannett newspapers in Maine since ane Administration of President Calvin Coolidge, became Washington correspondent after the death of her husband in 1935. Mrs. Craig also won other firsts for women. Mrs. Craig leaves a daughter, Mrs. Betty Clagett of Wheaton, Md. [Laughter] I must say I … 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966). Although many people thought of Mrs. Craig as a typical Down East Maine Yankee, she was actually a Southerner by birth, having been born on Coosaw Island, near Beaufort, S.C. At the age of 12, the former Elizabeth May Adams moved to Washington. MISS MAY CRAIG: A new system out there. They came from our new secret base at Shangri-La!" May Craig, whose hats and tart questions to Presidents and politicians made her one of the country's best‐known news women for several decades, … ", Well, the other night this "sweet young thing" in the middle of supper said, "Mr. President, couldn't you tell us about the bombing? [1] I have sent to the Congress today a message on the needs of our 17 1/2 million senior citizens. It happens to be a woman. She was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was also a campaigner for equality in children's education. A Kennedy press conference was something to look forward to because of the young president’s witty responses to reporters. The family moved to Minnesota but in 1946 Craig ran away from home. John F. Kennedy was at ease on television. Mrs. Craig had long been active in the struggle for women's rights, and at the time of. 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He worked as a farm labourer in South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma. So there was a normal flow. (Loud Laughter). Good afternoon. From this vantage point, she gave eyewitness accounts of the V-bomb attacks on London, the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of Paris. He held the first live, nationally televised presidential news conference on Jan. 25, 1961. The collection consists of correspondence and the writings of James Jackson Kilpatrick while he was editor of the Richmond News Leader (1954-1966), ca. Mrs. Craig, who had been. Scope and Content. THE PRESIDENT: Now May, why did you ask me that? Elisabeth May Adams Craig (December 19, 1889 in Coosaw Mines, South Carolina – July 15, 1975 in Silver Spring, Maryland)[1] was an American journalist best known for her reports on the Second World War, Korean War and U.S. politics. Where did those planes start from and go to?" Although a legal agreement was not signed during the lifetime of (Elizabeth) May Craig, upon her death, ownership of the recording and transcript of her interview for the Oral History Program passed to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Share Share Tweet Email. Although May Craig was a Southerner, she got her break in journalism working for the Maine-based Guy Gannett chain of newspapers (including the Portland Press Herald). However, in 1949, she broke Navy tradition and became the first woman correspondent on a battleship at sea when she covered air‐sea maneuvers on the carrier Midway. THE PRESIDENT: He was here before you and I were born. JFK Johnson Outpatient Center at Monroe Physical, Occupational & Speech Therapy, Audiology 100 Overlook Drive Monroe Township, NJ 08831 609-409-1170 JFK For Life Health & Fitness Center 70 James Street Edison, NJ 08820 732-631-1610 JFK Johnson Outpatient Center at Piscataway 1080 Stelton Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 848-230-6655 We get little affection from the people we have helped over the years —and we are losing respect. She was almost as famous for her flowered hats as for her penetrating and persistent questioning at Presidential news conferences. Walking behind: Patricia Kennedy Lawford (right) and her husband Peter Lawford (left), along with Robert F. Kennedy (center). In November 1961, White House reporter May Craig – who had covered the Normandy invasion – asked: Advertisement ... JFK: Well, I’m sure we haven’t done enough. For many years she was a fixture on the NBC‐TV program “Meet the Press,” presenting peppery appearance and asking nettlesome questions. ; a son, Donald A. Craig of Bethesda, Md. Early in 1964, Mrs. Craig wrote a column from Washington for The Portland Sunday Telegram that was to attract wide attention. While Roger Craig is not on Jim Marrs' list of "mysterious deaths," Roger Craig did make Mae Brussell's, Ronald Ecker's, and Day Williams' lists. And May 9 in the morning, "Ilse"--means Mrs. Craig again--kept my children while I went at 8:10 to Saint Marks for an interview. Her career spanned five Presidential administrations, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson. THE PRESIDENT: I call it a "sweet young thing." Lawyer Craig Zirbel, who has long investigated the assassination and wrote the book “The Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” claimed most of the evidence in the case was ordered destroyed in 1963. One of her most famous feminist battles took place in 1947, when she was the only woman correspondent assigned to travel with President Harry S. Truman to the Inter‐American Defense Conference in Brazil. November 6, 1987 | Clip Of News, Politics, and Ethics This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. (Pause here as newspapermen continue to file in. With her hair tied in an oldfashioned knot, Mrs. Craig looked like the stereotype of a small‐town schoolteacher. During the war, she constantly battled with the male military commanders and male journalists to have access to the news. See the article in its original context from. File Unit: John F. Kennedy Pre-presidential Papers Campaign Files 1952 Campaign Meet the Press, 12/1951 - 2/1952 Series: Senate Campaign Files, 1952 - 1952 Collection: Papers of John F. Kennedy: Pre-Presidential Papers: Congressional Campaign Files, 1946 - 1958 THE PRESIDENT: No. She joked that, "Bloody Mary of England once said that when she died they would find Calais graven on her heart" (in reference to a key French outpost lost during Mary's reign); "When I die, there will be the word facilities, so often it has been used to prevent me from doing what men reporters could do." (Laughter). Eight years later, she was married to Donald A. Craig, then the bureau chief there for The New York Herald. By Craig Elvy Published May 05, 2020. ; four grandchildren and two great‐grandchildren. She was said to have been the first woman reporter to fly the Berlin airlift, the first woman reporter to cover the Korean truce talks and the first woman to fly over the North Pole. Until her retirement 10 years ago, she was the Washington correspondent for The Portland Press Herald and other Guy Gannett newspapers in Maine. She took on leadership roles within both the Women's National Press Club and Eleanor Roosevelt's Press Conference Association, both organisations supporting women in journalism. In the spring of 1953, John F. … Arlington National Cemetery: Moving Experience - See 9,437 traveler reviews, 7,125 candid photos, and great deals for Arlington, VA, at Tripadvisor.