This week In National Press Club history

June 15, 1958: The National Press Club’s Fourth Annual Family Frolic, held on the grounds of the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Rock Creek Park, features rides, carnival games, sports, rock and roll dancing and special prizes for children and grown-ups. Vice President Richard Nixon, Attorney General William Rogers and Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) are among the estimated four thousand attendees.

June 19, 2014: A commercial photographer and drone pilot, Parker Gyokeres, flies a helicopter-like drone in a cleared area of the National Press Club lobby. Approximately two feet in diameter, it rises vertically to the top of the flags, then descends. At a Newsmaker event before the demonstration, drone advocates argue that FAA regulations are hampering their use in missing person searches, law enforcement, environmental monitoring and other activities.

June 20, 1968: Vice President Hubert Humphrey tells a National Press Club luncheon that he’s in the Democratic primary now that President Johnson has decided not to run, and tries to declare his independence from LBJ saying “Every conductor of an orchestra makes his own music, even with the same score and the same musicians. But it’s different music.”

June 20, 1991: The first popularly elected president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, says “there will be no turning back from the path Russia has chosen,” but he is dissatisfied with the “slow, half-hearted” economic and political reforms of Soviet President Gorbachev. The Soviet Union dissolves just six months after his luncheon speech.

This Week In National Press Club History is sponsored by the History & Heritage Committee, which works to preserve and revitalize the Club’s century-plus history with lobby displays, events, panel discussions and oral histories. For more information on the Committee or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].