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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-11-A
ST11
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-268-42-62
President John F. Kennedy (seated on stage in background) applauds as former Secretary of State, Dean Acheson (left of President Kennedy), stands to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, during commencement exercises at Yale University; honorary degree recipient and former Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush of Connecticut sits left of the President. Also pictured: University Chief Marshal, Dr. Richard L. Purdy; University Corporation Marshal, Dr. Frederick W. Hilles. An unidentified campus police officer stands at left in foreground. Old Campus, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]