Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-96-6-63
View of the Oval Office during President John F. Kennedy's meeting with officers and members of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, at which the President (back center) received a bound volume of the United States Commission on Civil Rights' report, "Freedom to the Free." Those pictured include: Robert S. Rankin, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Duke University; William L. Taylor, Commission Assistant Staff Director for Liaison and Information; Berl I. Bernhard, Commission Staff Director; M. Carl Holman, Commission Information Officer; Robert G. Storey, Commission Vice Chairman and President of the Southwestern Legal Center; Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr., Commission General Counsel; Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School; and Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President of Notre Dame University; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (right, back to camera), and other unidentified photographers. White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches are original to the negative]