Prior to the February, 1962, telecast, Perry Wolff and his production staff at the Columbia Broadcasting Company researched laboriously for months. The limitations of the hour-long presentation left the producer with vast amounts of unused information about the House, its inhabitants, the political maneuvering necessary to preserve the historicity of the mansion. Producer Wolff took that untaped research and uses it to annotate the printed transcript of the Collingwood-Kennedy tete-a-tete.