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Garnett D. Horner, reporter for the Washington Star and the out-going president of the White House Correspondents' Association, presents two silver lanterns to President John F. Kennedy at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. The lanterns are replicas of the lanterns hung in the Old North Church of Boston on April 18 1775.
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At the White House Correspondents and News Photographers Dinner, William H. Y. Knighton, Jr., President of the White House Correspondents’ Association (center), presents Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain and President John F. Kennedy with gifts. President Kennedy holds a silver replica of the inkstand used during the signing of the Declaration of Independence; Prime Minister Macmillan holds a silver cigar box modeled on a colonial tobacco box. Both gifts were made by William deMatteo, a silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Main ballroom, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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At the White House Correspondents and News Photographers Dinner, William H. Y. Knighton, Jr., President of the White House Correspondents’ Association, presents Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain with a silver cigar box modeled on a colonial tobacco box. President John F. Kennedy looks on, holding a silver replica of the inkstand used during the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Both gifts were made by William De Matteo, a silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Main ballroom, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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At the White House Correspondents and News Photographers Dinner, William H. Y. Knighton, Jr., President of the White House Correspondents’ Association, presents President John F. Kennedy with a silver replica of the inkstand used during the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The inkstand was made by William De Matteo, a silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Main ballroom, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.