Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7626-S
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation First International Awards Dinner for achievement in research, service, and leadership in the field of intellectual disability (then referred to as "mental retardation"). Seated at head table (R-L): President Kennedy; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Mrs. Kennedy; Director of the Peace Corps and Executive Director of the Foundation, Sargent Shriver; Director of the Department of Special Education at the Archdiocese of St. Louis and member of the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation, the Very Reverend Monsignor Elmer H. Behrmann; Director of Research of the Foundation, Dr. George A. Jervis. Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.