John Kennedy (1961)

US President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Richard Nixon, and their entourage walk across the lawn.

Members of Kennedy's cabinet attend an impromptu press conference.

Faces of US Secretary of State David Dean Rusk and US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson II. Rusk and Stevenson answer questions from reporters.

Rusk and Stevenson shake hands.

Kennedy signs a document while seated at a table, in the presence of cabinet members.

Kennedy's ceremony to receive the title of Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rice University in Houston on September 12, 1962. Participants applaud. J. Kennedy, wearing his professorial robe, speaks from the podium.