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Title: WDAF Television Station
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Biography of Randall Jessee (1914-1976), Newsman
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: Bill L. Wormington
Description: Obituary for Bill L. Wormington who died August 16, 2008, in Hawaii at age 81. He was born October 17, 1926, in Dodge City, Kansas, and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. "Bill was a television pioneer in Kansas City, working at WDAF-TV early in 1950 as a TV director, directing many of the early music/entertainment shows, also news and sports programs for NBC-TV. He joined Allied Broadcasting as CEO, building KCIT-TV, the first independent TV station in KC." He later founded American Transcom, a pioneer satellite company. Includes his picture.
Date: 2008-09-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Warm Remembrances of Ex-Mayor, County Executive
Description: Report of the funeral and burial services for Dale Baumgardner, former Blue Springs mayor and Jackson County executive. He also worked 19 years for WDAF-TV.
Date: 2004-12-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Video Curtain Goes Up: An Audience Estimated at 100,000 Sees the First Regularly Scheduled Programs of WDAF-TV
Description: Photos, captions, and articles about the beginning of regular television broadcasting in Kansas City.
Date: 1949-10-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Birthday for WDAF-TV
Date: 1955-10-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Randall Jesse
Description: View of Randall Jesse believed to have been taken at the January 25, 1955, meeting of the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City held at the Pickwick Hotel. He is listed as moderator of the program called "Radio and Television" and as Director of News and Special Events, WDAF, WDAF-TV.
Date: 1955-01-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: H. Dean Fitzer Is Dead at 71: Pioneer in TV Here Led in the Founding of WDAF
Description: Photo and obituary article about H. Dean Fitzer, a co-founder of the local television station WDAF-TV in 1949. He joined the Kansas City Star in 1920 who at the time was owner of WDAF radio, becoming manager and radio editor in 1925, with shows such as the "Nighthawk Frolic" with the Coon-Sanders orchestra, and starting the "Moonbeams" radio program in the 1930s.
Date: 1970-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Earl Beall Obituary
Description: Newspaper obituary for Earl Beall who died on March 13, 2003. He was the general manager of WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri from 1978-1992.
Date: 2003-03-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Acquisition of WDAF-TV
Description: Unverified first official news of the acquisition of the Kansas City Star's television news station, WDAF-TV, according to the local history index card.
Date: 1958-05-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: WDAF-TV First Anniversary Celebration
Description: Head table of a luncheon on October 17, 1950 celebrating the first anniversary of WDAF-TV. Broadcaster Randall Jessee is pictured second from far right.
Date: 1950-10-17
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bill Leeds and Others
Description: Interior group view with caption in scrapbook which reads "At the weekly luncheon of South Central Tuesday noon, October 10, 1961, Bill Leeds, News Director of WDAF, was the principal speaker. In the photograph is Bill Leeds, the American Royal Queen [Carolyn Jane Parkinson] for 1961, President Pettus and the two attendants for the Royal Queen".
Date: 1961-10-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bill Leeds
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bill Leeds, news man associated with WDAF-TV and Radio.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bob Wormington
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bob Wormington, General Manager of WDAF-TV.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Randall Jessee
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Randall Jessee.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Photograph

Title: John Herrington
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of John Herrington, associated with WDAF-TV.
Date: 1962
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fanfare For Two Uncommon Broadcasters
Description: Article which discusses the news styles of both Claude Dorsey, who recently died, and Mike McDonald who just retired as news director of WDAF-TV. Dorsey was the first news director at KMBC-TV. Both stations were prominent in news broadcasting over the years.
Date: 2002-08-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: WDAF Station Building
Description: Exterior, partial view of the WDAF broadcasting building entrance, located on Signal Hill, at the northwest corner of 31st Street and Southwest Trafficway. Also has the owner's name, The Kansas City Star, on the front. Processing date on photograph: May, 1955.
Date: 1955-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: WDAF-TV Building
Description: Full frontal and partial side view; located on "Signal Hill", northwest corner of 31st and Southwest Trafficway. Building is decorated for Christmas.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: BMA Building
Description: Photograph of the BMA Tower at 700 West 31st Street circa 1980. The tower was built in 1963 to replace the former headquarters of Business Men's Assurance Company on Pershing Road, and was designed by architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill. The WDAF radio tower can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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