page_title: Roy A. Roberts
hierarchical_section_title: Roy A. Roberts
caption_attribution_description: English: Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star, USSR Ambassaoor Mikhail Menshikov, and Chicago Sun-Times executive editor Milburn Pete Akers, searching the cloudy Chicago sky for a glimpse of Sputnik 3 on the evening of May 17, 1958. Location: Tavern Club, 333 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, USA. (Akers would later become president of Shimer College.)
context_page_description: Roy Allison Roberts was a managing editor, president, editor and general manager of The Kansas City Star who guided the paper during its influential period during the Presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
context_section_description: Roy Allison Roberts (1887 – February 23, 1967) was a managing editor, president, editor and general manager of The Kansas City Star who guided the paper during its influential period during the Presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
caption: Roy A. Roberts (left), Amb. Mikhail A. Menshikov, and Milburn Akers on May 17, 1958 (Chicago Sun-Times)
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