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President of Colombia Alberto Lleras Camargo speaks at a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Techo Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia, marking the construction of homes and schools built through the Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso). On platform (L-R): First Lady of Colombia Berta Puga Martínez; United States Ambassador to Colombia Fulton Freeman; unidentified; President John F. Kennedy; President Lleras; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (behind President Lleras). Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (far left of image, wearing sunglasses) and Roy Kellerman (right of platform, facing right); Special Assistant to President Kennedy Kenneth P. O’Donnell (behind Freeman). Reporters, photographers, and Colombian military police stand around platform. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]