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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-31-A
AR41, ST32
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-B
AR41, ST32
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C360-2-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated in foreground, out of focus) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing in background (left to right): unidentified (partially hidden on edge of frame); President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger (wearing bow tie); Gwendolyn Fettinger; unidentified (in back); Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad (wearing bow tie); unidentified (in back); Representative John E. Fogarty (Rhode Island); Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation; unidentified (in back); Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-476-4-63
President John F. Kennedy (in background) hands a pen to his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver (consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation), after signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing in group at left: Representative Eugene J. Keogh (New York); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Dr. Richard L. Masland (in front of window); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee). Standing in group with President Kennedy and Mrs. Shriver: President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger; Gwendolyn Fettinger; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad; Representative John E. Fogarty (Rhode Island); Special Assistant to the President for Mental Retardation, Dr. Stafford L. Warren. Photographers film at right. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [Notes: Light scratching in lower and upper portions of image is original to the negative.]