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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-27451
President John F. Kennedy (center, at lectern) delivers remarks at the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing on the speaker’s platform (L-R): Chicago alderman Daniel J. Ronan; Chicago Aviation Commissioner, William E. Downes, Jr. (in back); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Chicago alderman Casimir "Casey" Laskowski; Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, George L. DeMent (in back, mostly obscured); Representative William T. Murphy of Illinois (mostly obscured); Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; three unidentified persons; Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines, C. R. Smith; President Kennedy (at microphones); Chicago City Corporation Counsel, John C. Melaniphy; unidentified; Patricia O'Hare Palmer, sister of the airport’s namesake, Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare; Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; aide to Mayor Daley, Colonel Jack Reilly; White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring (partially obscured); Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); and Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard (mostly obscured). Also listed in the President’s schedule as present on the speaker’s platform: Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District, John E. Egan; architect Charles F. Murphy; Representatives Edward R. Finnegan, Barratt O'Hara, Roland Libonati, Roman C. Pucinski, John C. Kluczynski, and Leslie C. Arends (all of Illinois); Cook County Assessor, P. J. Cullerton; and Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), Alan S. Boyd.