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In honor of the sixtieth anniversary edition of the “The White House: A Historic Guide,” let’s revisit the landmark TV special hosted by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962 that launched this perennial fundraiser for preserving the presidential home. Watch highlights of the program, which included a charming appearance by President John F. Kennedy, above.

With the support of her husband, Mrs. Kennedy had worked diligently throughout 1961, their first year in the Executive Mansion, to restore many of the state and private rooms with period pieces rather than reproductions. And she spearheaded the formation of the White House Historical Association, which raised funds for the ambitious project.

To showcase the results, Mrs. Kennedy gave CBS newsman Charles Collingwood a tour of these rooms, many of which remain this way today. Both the Tiffany net and NBC aired this hour-long program on Valentine’s Day, with ABC rebroadcasting it four days later.

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Marvin Josephson, the man who founded the talent agency that would eventually evolve into the Hollywood powerhouse ICM Partners, died Wednesday in New York. He was 95.

“We mourn the loss of Marvin Josephson, one of the founders of ICM, who was universally respected as an agent, a leader and a man. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family,” ICM Partners said in a statement provided to TheWrap.

Josephson, a New York University law school graduate (1952) born in 1927 in Atlantic City, N.J to parents who were immigrants, founded his initial talent representation business in 1955. His first big client was Bob Keeshan, better known to generations of kids as Captain Kangaroo.

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Josephson began representing big name TV personalities, starting with Charles Collingwood and eventually including Barbara Walters.

After merging with LA-based Rosenberg Coryell in the mid-60s,...

Marvin Josephson, who helped grow a small management company that could not afford a secretary into an international entertainment agency with multiple offices, died May 17 in New York. He was 95.

Josephson was born March 6, 1927 in Atlantic City, N.J. to immigrant parents. Upon graduation from Atlantic City High School, he entered the US Navy just before the end of World War II. After the Navy, he attended Cornell University, where he received a B.A. degree.

He went on to night law school at New York University School of Law and received his law degree in 1952. That same year, Josephson got a job in the CBS legal department. He left CBS to start his own company and was the only employee, since he could not afford a secretary.

The new company started April 1, 1955 as a personal management company. The first important client was Bob Keeshan, who produced and starred in “Captain Kangaroo,...

Perry Wolff, a longtime CBS News producer, writer and director who won 17 News & Documentary Emmys but probably is best known for a now-classic documentary in which Jackie Kennedy provided a tour of the newly restored White House, died February 17 in Portland, Or. He was 97.

His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his son, the writer John Trevor Wolff. (Watch a clip of the Kennedy film below).

Wolff’s métier was the television documentary and news special. Here’s a partial list of his Emmy- and/or Peabody Award-winning films, listed on Wolff’s website and blog and mostly from the 1960s-’70s golden age of TV news documentaries: A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, The Italians, The Great American Novel, Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed, The Japanese, The American Revolution, The Selling of the Pentagon, Conversations with Eric Sevareid, Inside Hollywood: The Movie Business,...

In honor of Friday's anniversary of the birth of President John F. Kennedy in 1917, let's revisit a landmark in the life of the First Lady -- Jacqueline Kennedy (Onassis) -- who hosted a TV tour of the White House in 1962.  -Break- With the support of her husband, Mrs. Kennedy had worked diligently throughout 1961, their first year in the Executive Mansion, to restore many of the state and private rooms with period pieces rather than reproductions. And she spearheaded the formation of the White House Historical Assn., which raised funds for the ambitious project. To showcase the results, Mrs. Kennedy gave CBS newsman Charles Collingwood a tour of these rooms, many of which remain this way today. Both the Tiffany net and NBC aired this hour-long program on Valentine's Day, with ABC rebroadcasting it four days later. (Watch the entire program, including a charming appearance by the President, below.) The ratings...

The 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination on CBS News won’t include the recollections of its longtime anchor Dan Rather, further proof of the lingering bitterness following Rather’s messy exit and subsequent lawsuit against the network.

Rather helped organize CBS’ plans for President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on Axs-tv, he’s one of the few reporters on the story that day who’s still active in journalism.

Rather, who later became CBS News’ top anchor for 24 years,...

In honor of what would have been the 80th birthday today of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, we look back at one of her lasting achievements as first lady – the restoration of the White House. The Emmy-contending second season of "Mad Men" is set in 1962, the same year Jackie Kennedy hosted a TV tour of the White House. The notoriously publicity shy first lady was persuaded to take to the airwaves to showcase the restoration of many of the state rooms of the Executive Mansion. Although Charles Collingwood — the newsman who accompanied the first lady — hailed from CBS, NBC also telecast the hourlong program on Valentine's Day. ABC aired the program four days later. TV ratings were staggering, thanks to huge interest in the wife of President Kennedy and her yearlong initiative to make the White House more accessible to all Americans. Reviews were rapturous, and the TV academy honored...