Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A29-7-61
President John F. Kennedy speaks during a ceremony for the first group of departing Peace Corps volunteers, leaving for Tanganyika and Ghana, in the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Reporters and photographers observe, including Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig. [For a complete list of attendees, please see White House Central Subject Files, Box 670, Folder 1: "PC 5 Peace Corps Program (Executive, 1-20-61 - 4-10-62)."]