Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7005-C
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with members of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (formerly the National Negro Publishers Association). Sitting on couch facing camera (L-R): unidentified; Publisher of the Afro-American, John H. Murphy III; Publisher of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Thomas W. Young, Jr.; Owner of the San Francisco Sun, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett. Also listed in the President’s schedule: Business Manager of the Louisiana Weekly, C. C. Dejoie, Jr.; Publisher of the Chicago Defender, John H. Sengstacke; Publisher of the Philadelphia Tribune, Eugene Washington Rhodes; Editor and Publisher of the St. Louis American, Nathaniel A. Sweets. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Ink bleed-through at top right of image is original to the file print]
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