Sen. John F. Kennedy (far right) participates in a panel discussion
on NBC’s Meet the Press, which aired on Feb. 14, 1954.

Meet the Press is a weekly television news/interview program broadcast on
NBC. It is the longest-running program in television history, though the
current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November
6, 1947.  It originates from NBC’s Washington, D.C. bureau.  Meet the Press
began on radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1945.     

The first host was its creator, Martha Rountree (below) the program’s only
full time female moderator to date. She stepped down on November 1, 1953
and until Ned Brooks could take over.

 
Chuck Stenberg did an interview with Paul Revere on July 8, 2011 at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville Oregon.

Original television airing on CBS: October 2, 1953-September 8, 1961

Person to Person is a popular television program that originally ran from 1953
to 1961, and returned in 2012. In the original series,Edward R. Murrow hosted
it until 1959, interviewing celebrities in their homes from a comfortable chair in
his New York studio. In the last two years of its original run, the host of the show  
was Charles Collingwood.