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President John F. Kennedy (center left) stands in front of a memorial for Lieutenant Commander Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare before laying a wreath during the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing directly behind President Kennedy (L-R): Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois (mostly obscured); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; and Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley. Nephews of Butch O'Hare, Phillip Tovrea III (wearing a Culver Military Academy uniform) and Edward Palmer (holding wreath), stand in front of the memorial. Those standing in background at left include former chairman of the Chicago City Council's Aviation Committee, John E. Egan; Representatives Roman C. Pucinski and John C. Kluczynski (both of Illinois); and aide to Mayor Daley, Colonel Jack Reilly.
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President John F. Kennedy (center) lays a wreath at a memorial for Lieutenant Commander Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare during the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing in foreground (L-R): former chairman of the Chicago City Council's Aviation Committee, John E. Egan; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; President Kennedy; nephews of Butch O'Hare, Phillip Tovrea III (partially obscured, wearing a Culver Military Academy uniform) and Edward Palmer; and an unidentified member of the Chicago Police Department.
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President John F. Kennedy (center left) stands in front of a memorial for Lieutenant Commander Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare after laying a wreath during the dedication ceremony for O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing in row behind President Kennedy (L-R): Aide to Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Colonel Jack Reilly (partially obscured); former chairman of the Chicago City Council's Aviation Committee, John E. Egan; Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois (mostly obscured); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; and Mayor Daley. Nephews of Butch O'Hare, Phillip Tovrea III (wearing a Culver Military Academy uniform) and Edward Palmer, stand in foreground at right.
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President John F. Kennedy (center right, at lectern) delivers remarks at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Those visible standing on the speaker’s platform include: Representative John C. Kluczynski (Illinois); Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), Alan S. Boyd; Representative Leslie C. Arends (Illinois); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Representative William T. Murphy (Illinois); Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines, C. R. Smith; Chicago City Corporation Counsel, John C. Melaniphy; Patricia O'Hare Palmer, sister of the airport’s namesake, Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare; Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); and entertainer Phil Regan. White House Secret Service agent Bob Lilley stands in foreground at left; agent Ron Pontius stands at far right. Also listed in the President’s schedule as present on the speaker’s platform: Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District, John E. Egan; Chicago alderman Casimir "Casey" Laskowski; architect Charles F. Murphy; Representatives Edward R. Finnegan, Barratt O'Hara, Roland Libonati, and Roman C. Pucinski (all of Illinois); and Cook County Assessor, P. J. “Parky” Cullerton.
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President John F. Kennedy (center, at lectern) delivers remarks at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Those visible standing on the speaker’s platform include: Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), Alan S. Boyd; Chicago alderman Daniel J. Ronan; Chicago Aviation Commissioner, William E. Downes, Jr.; Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Chicago alderman Casimir "Casey" Laskowski; Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, George L. DeMent; Representative William T. Murphy (Illinois); Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines, C. R. Smith; Chicago City Corporation Counsel, John C. Melaniphy; Patricia O'Hare Palmer, sister of the airport’s namesake, Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare; Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard; and entertainer Phil Regan. White House Secret Service agent Bob Lilley stands in foreground at left; agent Ron Pontius stands at far right. Also listed in the President’s schedule as present on the speaker’s platform: Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District, John E. Egan; architect Charles F. Murphy; Representatives Edward R. Finnegan, Barratt O'Hara, Roland Libonati, Roman C. Pucinski, John C. Kluczynski, and Leslie C. Arends (all of Illinois); and Cook County Assessor, P. J. “Parky” Cullerton.
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President John F. Kennedy (center right) lays a wreath at a memorial for Lieutenant Commander Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare during the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing in foreground (L-R): former chairman of the Chicago City Council's Aviation Committee, John E. Egan; Representative Roman C. Pucinski of Illinois (holding coat); Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; nephew of Butch O'Hare, Edward Palmer; President Kennedy; nephew of Butch O'Hare, Phillip Tovrea III (facing away from camera, wearing a Culver Military Academy uniform); and an unidentified member of the Chicago Police Department.
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President John F. Kennedy (center, holding hat and waving) walks through a crowd during the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois; Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley, and Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, walk right of President Kennedy. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents Ron Pontius and Roy Kellerman.
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President John F. Kennedy (center left) prepares to lay a wreath at a memorial for Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch" O'Hare during the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing in group at center (L-R): Aide to Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley, Colonel Jack Reilly; President Kennedy; Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois (behind the President); nephew of Butch O'Hare, Edward Palmer (foreground, shaking hands with the President); Mayor Daley (in back, mostly obscured); and nephew of Butch O'Hare, Phillip Tovrea III (wearing a Culver Military Academy uniform). Those standing in background at left include former chairman of the Chicago City Council's Aviation Committee, John E. Egan, and Representatives Roman C. Pucinski and John C. Kluczynski (both of Illinois).
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President John F. Kennedy (center, at lectern) delivers remarks at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Those visible standing on the speaker’s platform include: Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District, John E. Egan; Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), Alan S. Boyd; Chicago alderman Daniel J. Ronan; Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Chicago alderman Casimir "Casey" Laskowski; Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, George L. DeMent; Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines, C. R. Smith; Chicago City Corporation Counsel, John C. Melaniphy; Patricia O'Hare Palmer, sister of the airport’s namesake, Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare; Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard; and entertainer Phil Regan. White House Secret Service agent Bob Lilley stands in foreground at left. Also listed in the President’s schedule as present on the speaker’s platform: Chicago Aviation Commissioner, William E. Downes, Jr.; architect Charles F. Murphy; Representatives William T. Murphy, Edward R. Finnegan, Barratt O'Hara, Roland Libonati, Roman C. Pucinski, John C. Kluczynski, and Leslie C. Arends (all of Illinois); and Cook County Assessor, P. J. “Parky” Cullerton.
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President John F. Kennedy (center right, at lectern) delivers remarks at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Those visible standing on the speaker’s platform include: Representative John C. Kluczynski (Illinois); Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), Alan S. Boyd; Representative Leslie C. Arends (Illinois); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Representative William T. Murphy (Illinois); Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines, C. R. Smith; Chicago City Corporation Counsel, John C. Melaniphy; Patricia O'Hare Palmer, sister of the airport’s namesake, Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare; Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; aide to Mayor Daley, Colonel Jack Reilly; White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); and entertainer Phil Regan. White House Secret Service agent Bob Lilley stands in foreground at left. Also listed in the President’s schedule as present on the speaker’s platform: Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District, John E. Egan; Chicago alderman Casimir "Casey" Laskowski; Chicago Aviation Commissioner, William E. Downes, Jr.; Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, George L. DeMent; architect Charles F. Murphy; Representatives Edward R. Finnegan, Barratt O'Hara, Roland Libonati, and Roman C. Pucinski (all of Illinois); and Cook County Assessor, P. J. “Parky” Cullerton.
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President John F. Kennedy (center right, at lectern) delivers remarks at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Those visible standing on the speaker’s platform include: Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District, John E. Egan; Representative John C. Kluczynski (Illinois); Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), Alan S. Boyd; Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, George L. DeMent; Representative Leslie C. Arends (Illinois); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Representative William T. Murphy (Illinois); Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines, C. R. Smith; Chicago City Corporation Counsel, John C. Melaniphy; Patricia O'Hare Palmer, sister of the airport’s namesake, Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare; Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; aide to Mayor Daley, Colonel Jack Reilly; Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); and entertainer Phil Regan. White House Secret Service agent Bob Lilley stands in foreground at left. Also listed in the President’s schedule as present on the speaker’s platform: Chicago alderman Casimir "Casey" Laskowski; Chicago Aviation Commissioner, William E. Downes, Jr.; architect Charles F. Murphy; Representatives Edward R. Finnegan, Barratt O'Hara, Roland Libonati, and Roman C. Pucinski (all of Illinois); and Cook County Assessor, P. J. “Parky” Cullerton.
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President John F. Kennedy (right, shaking hands with an unidentified person) greets members of the public at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
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President John F. Kennedy (right, shaking hands with an unidentified person) greets members of the public at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
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President John F. Kennedy (right) greets unidentified members of the public at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, L-R: Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois), in second row; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio (on far right edge of frame). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Front row, L-R: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye). Others include: Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois), at left, behind Johnson’s shoulder; Congressman Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut), third row, between Rayburn and Brosio, wearing glasses; Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), in second row, between Brosio and President Kennedy; Congressman Silvio O. Conte (Massachusetts), behind Fino, face half-hidden; Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo (New York), right of the President, third row; Congressman George P. Miller (California), far right, second row. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs H.R. 6027 Public Law 87-64, Old Age, Survivors, and Dependents Insurance Act, an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1961. (L-R) Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Congressman Wilbur Mills (Arkansas); Senator John J. Williams (Delaware); Congressman Thomas J. O’Brien (Illinois); President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Robert Kerr (Oklahoma); Congressman John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs H.R. 6027 Public Law 87-64, Old Age, Survivors, and Dependents Insurance Act, an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1961. (L-R) Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Congressman Wilbur Mills (Arkansas); Senator John J. Williams (Delaware); Congressman Thomas J. O’Brien (Illinois); President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Robert Kerr (Oklahoma); Congressman John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Daily News, Peter I. Lisagor (right). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Daily News, Peter I. Lisagor (right). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy receives a leather-bound collection of the works of William Shakespeare from Lieutenant Colonel Terry Entner (center), a cadet in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at Calumet High School in Chicago, Illinois; Representative William T. Murphy (Illinois) stands at left. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at center) attends a luncheon for newspaper publishers and editors from Illinois. Seated at table (clockwise, beginning right of President Kennedy): First Vice President of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Rochelle News Leader, William Kenneth Smith; Third Vice President of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Melrose Park Star Sentinel, Paul D. Coffman; Co-Owner and Business Manager of the Moline Dispatch, Robert H. Sward; Managing Editor for the Midwest Edition of the Wall Street Journal, John A. McWethy; Publisher of the Southern Illinoisan, Edward E. Lindsay; Executive Editor of the Chicago Daily News, Lawrence S. “Larry” Fanning; Publisher and Editor of the Joliet Herald-News, John F. Lux; Publisher of the Chicago Defender, John H. Sengstacke; President and Publisher of Chicago’s American, Robert Stuart List; Treasurer of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Bridgeport Leader, Roy R. Rucker; White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; President and Publisher of the Waukegan News Sun, Frank Ward Just; Publisher of the Decatur Herald and Review, the East St. Louis Journal, and the Quincy Herald-Whig, Frank M. Lindsay, Sr.; Publisher of the Peoria Journal-Star, Henry P. Slane; Publisher and Editor of the Belleville News Democrat and Advocate, Robert L. Kern; President and Publisher of the Bloomington Pantagraph, Loring C. Merwin; Publisher of the Champaign Courier, Byron C. Vedder; President and Associate Publisher of the Rockford Star and Register-Republic, William K. Todd; Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of the Kankakee Journal, Len H. Small; Publisher of the Elgin Courier-News, William Hoyt Cater; and President of the Illinois Press Association, John A. Holmes. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at center) attends a luncheon for newspaper publishers and editors from Illinois. Seated at table (clockwise, beginning right of President Kennedy): First Vice President of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Rochelle News Leader, William Kenneth Smith; Third Vice President of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Melrose Park Star Sentinel, Paul D. Coffman; Co-Owner and Business Manager of the Moline Dispatch, Robert H. Sward; Managing Editor for the Midwest Edition of the Wall Street Journal, John A. McWethy; Publisher of the Southern Illinoisan, Edward E. Lindsay; Executive Editor of the Chicago Daily News, Lawrence S. “Larry” Fanning; Publisher and Editor of the Joliet Herald-News, John F. Lux; Publisher of the Chicago Defender, John H. Sengstacke; President and Publisher of Chicago’s American, Robert Stuart List; Treasurer of the Illinois Press Association and Publisher of the Bridgeport Leader, Roy R. Rucker; White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; President and Publisher of the Waukegan News Sun, Frank Ward Just; Publisher of the Decatur Herald and Review, the East St. Louis Journal, and the Quincy Herald-Whig, Frank M. Lindsay, Sr.; Publisher of the Peoria Journal-Star, Henry P. Slane; Publisher and Editor of the Belleville News Democrat and Advocate, Robert L. Kern; President and Publisher of the Bloomington Pantagraph, Loring C. Merwin; Publisher of the Champaign Courier, Byron C. Vedder; President and Associate Publisher of the Rockford Star and Register-Republic, William K. Todd; Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of the Kankakee Journal, Len H. Small; Publisher of the Elgin Courier-News, William Hoyt Cater; and President of the Illinois Press Association, John A. Holmes. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (right) meets with Representative Sidney R. Yates (Illinois) in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (left) shakes hands with Representative Sidney R. Yates (Illinois) during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.