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When President-elect John F. Kennedy '40 came to Harvard in early 1961, WHRB news director James F. Flug '60 managed to be the only reporter to interview him that day, by talking to him in his limousine. As a result, Flug was the first reporter to find out about Kennedy's plans for starting the Peace Corps...
...When [Kennedy] got out into the Yard, there was a total mob scene," says Flug. "As he passed by, I said, 'I'm from WHRB and I'm supposed to interview you.' He said...
...Earlier, Flug had interviewed Kennedy in West Virginia, where the candidate had refused to answer some of Flug's questions about his media campaign. Flug recalls that Kennedy's "people told me later he had in fact remembered the Harvard reporter who had given him such a rough interview...
...Flug says that at the time "we really had a running competition with The Crimson" in news coverage. WHRB began to issue a summary of its 11 p.m. newscast and would pass it out every morning in the dining halls...
...Flug said several other Ivy League colleges have similar programs and that Dartmouth's program was used as an example "Dartmouth gave us a lot of assistance," she said...