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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-C
AR41, ST32
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C360-6-63
After addressing the 13th annual convention of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), President John F. Kennedy (at lectern, holding a bronze plaque) presents the association's Award of Merit to Director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Dr. Richard L. Masland (center left, also holding the plaque). Standing right of President Kennedy (applauding): President of NARC, John G. Fettinger; Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation. Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C360-11-63
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks at the 13th annual convention of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC). Seated at head table, right of President Kennedy (left to right): President of NARC, John G. Fettinger; unidentified; Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation; unidentified. Seated to the right of the President (right to left): Special Assistant to the President for Mental Retardation, Dr. Stafford L. Warren; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; unidentified; Director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Dr. Richard L. Masland; others are in shadow. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Arthur L. "Art" Godfrey, Floyd Boring, and Dick Johnsen. Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.