1965 Press Photo Assistant White House Press Secretary Joseph Laitin on phone

Joseph Laitin, assistant White House press secretary, waits on the telephone in briefing room at Bethesda Naval Hospital near here early today for word that the gall bladder surgery on President Johnson had begun. Moments later he announced the operation had started at 7:52 A.M.

Photo is dated 1965.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.