Who was the original host of "Meet the Press"?

Question

Martha Rountree
Ed Sullivan
Howard K. Smith
Lawrence E. Spivak

Answer 1

Meet the Press and similar Sunday-morning interview shows specialize in interviewing national leaders on issues of state, economics and foreign policy. These shows help fulfill the obligations of the networks to provide a public service to the community.

The show was originally presented as a 30-minute press conference with a single guest and a panel of questioners. Its first hostess was Martha Rountree, to date the program's only female moderator. The original producer, Lawrence E. Spivak, who published the conservative political and cultural magazine The American Mercury until 1954, remained on the show as permanent panel member and then as moderator until November 1975.

Other moderators throughout the years have included Ned Brooks, Bill Monroe, Marvin Kalb, Roger Mudd, Chris Wallace and Garrick Utley.

Answer 2

It was Spivak in 1947 on television!

Answer 3

I remember my parents watching it and then it was Marvin Kalb and Roger Mudd doing the moderations.
Who had a TV set in 1954?? that was like for the really rich people in those days.

Answer 4

Alexander Hamilton