Election Night 1956

The Votes Come In

The Night Watch

Photo #1

Tearing wire copy from the teletype machine is Albert Callahan (left) Business, 57, producer-director of WRTI's election coverage program last night. He's handing latest results to Joseph Sands (right), Business '58, who was wire editor.

Photo #2

Announcer is Ivan Shaner, Business '57. Lowell Fishman, Business '57, in charge of States desk, is handing Shaner fresh copy and Callahan (minus jacket by this time) is posting tabulations on the control board. The operation involved 25 WRTI staffers who began work at 8pm and stayed on the job until early this morning when the returns were adequately complete.

The above is from the front page of the November 7, 1956 issue of the Temple University News. It is reprinted here with their kind permission.

For your information, Ivan Shaner may be better known to you as Gene Shay.