Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Creator: SAURO, William E.
Date: 1969
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0675.0011

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 8082 [circled]; stamped: M APR 8 71 [struck through]; typed: SMOTHERS BROTHERS PRESS CONFERENCE / The Smothers Brothers held a press conference at the Four / Seasons this morning. After the conference they showed a / videotape of the program which was cancelled. This same / show was seen on Canadian TV last night. American audience / saw a re-run. / TV screen shots show the following. Dan Rowan; Nancy Wil- / son, David Steinberg. Steinberg did a m onlolgue [sic] on a / biblical theme. Steinberg did the monologue for the press / ocnference. [sic] / ROLL-1 / 17, 27, 28 - Tom (L) and Dick Smothers at press conference. / ROLL-2 / 5 - David Steinberg and Tom Smothers watch videotape replay / of cancelled show. Newsmen surround them. / 2-Weather pix. In front of the Seagram Buidling [sic] on Park Ave. / ROLL-3 / 8-Tom Smothers, reacting to a newsman's question, points' / the way to the door. Dick is at right. / [marked] 16-32- David Steinberg, [circled] who did the controversial monologue. / He did it for newsmen. Other pix show him on videotape. / ROLL-4 / 26- Tom and Dick Smothers, with David Steinberg, center, / during the news conference. / SAURO/wes 5-35mm 5/7/69 094805; stamped: JUN 11 1987

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection