Title

Larry Speakes

Photographer

Nova Southeastern University

Preview

Description

Unknown man and Larry Speakes

Photo credit: Gerlinde Photography

Larry Melvin Speakes (September 13, 1939 – January 10, 2014) was the acting White House Press Secretary for the White House under President Ronald Reagan, having held the position from 1981 to 1987.

He was born in northwestern Mississippi in 1939 and attended the University of Mississippi. He worked as a journalist in the 1960s until he became the press secretary of Democratic Senator James Eastland in 1968. In this position, he also worked as the spokesman for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

In 1974, he became a Staff Assistant for President Richard Nixon and soon became the Press Secretary to the Special Counsel to the President at the height of the Watergate scandal. Upon Nixon's resignation, President Gerald Ford appointed Speakes to be Assistant Press Secretary to the President. Speakes served as Bob Dole's press secretary during his unsuccessful vice-presidential run with Ford.

Speakes worked for the international public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton until 1981. After Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Speakes began hosting the daily press briefings for Reagan.

Wikipedia

Date Digital

2017

Format

color photographic print

Digital Collection

Forum

Repository

NSU Archives, Nova Southeastern University

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution of this digital object is not permitted without written permission of the Nova Southeastern University Archives.

Copyright

Efforts by Nova Southeastern University Archives to locate an heir of the creator or a holder of the copyright to the materials were unsuccessful. If you know of a verifiable copyright holder for this item or if you have any question regarding the publication rights, please contact the Nova Southeastern University Archives.

Digitization Specifications

Scanned from a photographic print using a EPSON Perfection V700 Photo Scanner at 600 dpi in Tiff format