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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19584
President John F. Kennedy attends the Albert Parvin Foundation Awards ceremony marking the establishment of the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair of Government and Law at the National School of Law in Leopoldville (Democratic Republic of the Congo). William O. Douglas, Associate Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, stands on the far left; Dr. Jaime Benítez, Director of the Parvin Foundation, is second from the right. Also listed in the President's schedule as attending the ceremony are Albert Parvin, founder of the Parvin Foundation; J.P. Dericoyard, a member of the Republic of the Congo delegation to the United Nations; and Maurice Kasongo, director of the Information Bureau for the Congo delegation at the United Nations. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.