WHRB Given Award For 1963 Documentary

The UPI Broadcasters Association presented WHRB with the Tom Phillips Award for the best documentary of 1963 Thursday night. WHRB won the annual New England competition with its program on "The March on Washington."

The one-hour program, which was first broadcast last September, included exclusive interviews with Speaker of the House John W. McCormack (D-Mass.), Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), and Sen. J. Strom Thurmond D.S.C.).