Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy prepares to sign HR 2470, a bill to authorize the creation of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Indiana. Looking on are (L-R): Congressman Fred Schwengel (Iowa); Isadora Skora, a Lincoln scholar from Evansville, Indiana; Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); William A. Koch, Indiana businessman; Roy T. Combs, President of the Indiana Lincoln Foundation; and Congressman Winfield K. Denton (Indiana). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.