# From vague description: Id a feisty 'little ole lady' type WH Press Corps reporter?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 7, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727 "2011-03-07T02:16:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727/1 "2011-03-07T02:16:44Z")
And it’s not Helen Thomas or Sarah McLendon. I saw a documentary on JFK recently (“A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy”) which consists strictly of archive footage. Anyway, two different times in the movie, JFK is giving a press conference, and one of the reporters/questioners is a smallish woman with a someone feisty attitude. I’d think it might be Thomas or McLendon, but it sounded as though he called her “Mrs. Drake,” or something similar.
Unfortunately, I’ve since deleted the doc, so I can’t supply a screen cap or snippet.
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### Author:  [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727/2 "2011-03-07T03:12:03Z")
Likely May Craig.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727/3 "2011-03-07T03:30:27Z")
The best I can come up with from that era was Betsy Wade, a reporter, later editor, for the _New York Times_. I can’t find a professional biography of her that would say whether she ever covered the White House, though.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727/4 "2011-03-07T03:53:17Z")
> [@yoyodyne](#):
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> Likely May Craig.
Thank you! [This](http://books.google.com/books?id=GYjNgQI1qG8C&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=may+craig+press+corps&source=bl&ots=XEUSb9mtK7&sig=AwGP_IuJWAOX88HMhTkbj6kj4s8&hl=en&ei=IlZ0TbfHOoiCtgftt7j-Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&sqi=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=may%20craig%20press%20corps&f=false) pretty much cinches it, as this exchange was included in the doc.
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### Author:  [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-vague-description-id-a-feisty-little-ole-lady-type-wh-press-corps-reporter/573727/5 "2011-03-07T04:01:15Z")
You’re welcome. [A video clip of her](http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/JJivQwVkiUqu-oWGEzFrIg.aspx).