Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-285-66-61
President John F. Kennedy shakes the hand of a farmer receiving a land grant at La Morita Resettlement Project in La Morita, Venezuela. L-R: US State Department interpreter Donald Barnes (on edge of frame); unidentified; Chester B. Bowles, President Kennedy's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin-American Affairs; President Kennedy; First Lady of Venezuela Carmen Valverde de Betancourt; President of Venezuela Rómulo Betancourt; unidentified farmer; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (partially hidden); others unidentified.