Les Kretman
Formerly of NBC News
Les Kretman (Washington). Les spent more than 30 years at NBC News, most recently as White House producer, before retiring in May 2009. Based at the White House for nearly a decade, he coordinated the network’s daily coverage of the president and traveled worldwide with former President George W. Bush. He has also served as NBC’s deputy bureau chief in Washington and was a producer assigned to the network’s bureau in Frankfurt, Germany. Before coming to NBC he was assistant news director for WBZ-TV and executive producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV, all in Boston. He was a producer on the NBC team that received two national Emmys: one for NBC’s election night coverage in 2008, and the other for the network’s coverage of Ronald Reagan’s funeral.
Walt Whitman High School presentations on January 7 and March 23, 2010.