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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-GOT-01
This statement focuses on John F. Kennedy (JFK)’s compassion for people with intellectual disabilities, his commitment to improving public attitudes toward them, and the accomplishments of the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-B
AR41, ST32
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19184
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation. Photograph includes Dr. Robert E. Cooke (far left); Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (third from left); Eunice Shriver (at back, behind Secretary Ribicoff); President Kennedy (front, center); Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer “Mike” Feldman (far right); Dr. Leonard Mayo; Dr. Lloyd M. Dunn; others unidentified. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-236-10-61
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation. Photograph includes Dr. Robert E. Cooke (right of left column); Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (third from left); Eunice Shriver (at back, in front of main door); President Kennedy (third from right); Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer "Mike" Feldman (far right); Irene Wright; Dr. Leonard Mayo; Dr. Lloyd M. Dunn; others unidentified. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-476-2-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Those standing around table include (beginning at far left): Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Representative Eugene J. Keogh (New York); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger; Gwendolyn Fettinger; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad; Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation; Special Assistant to the President for Mental Retardation, Dr. Stafford L. Warren; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Deputy Special Counsel to the President, Myer Feldman. Motion picture photographers film at far right. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.