Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-234-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (center right, back to camera) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the USA, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr., films in the background at right. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.