Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6801-F
President John F. Kennedy signs HR 7500, the Peace Corps Bill, in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Director of the Peace Corps, R. Sargent Shriver; Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan; Representative Edna Kelly of New York; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; Representative Thomas F. Johnson of Maryland; Representative Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin; Representative Wayne L. Hays of Ohio (behind Representative Zablocki); Representative Leslie C. Arends of Illinois (very back); Representative Roman C. Pucinski of Illinois; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota; Representative Silvio O. Conte of Massachusetts; Representative Thomas E. Morgan of Pennsylvania; Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey.
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