Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6801-E
President John F. Kennedy signs HR 7500, the Peace Corps Bill, in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): 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 Roman C. Pucinski of Illinois; Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma (behind Representative Pucinski); 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; Representative Sidney R. Yates of Illinois; Representative Harris B. McDowell of Delaware (in back); Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee.
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