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R. Sargent Shriver and Peace Corps volunteers

R. Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps, leads the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to the White House to meet the President.

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PX 65-2:20 R. Sargent Shriver, Director, Peace Corps, 28 August 1961. Original Peace Corps caption: "Shriver leads eighty Ghana and Tanganyika Peace Corps Volunteers to White House, where President Kennedy gave them a personal sendoff." Photograph by Rowland Scherman, Peace Corps, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Date: 08/28/1961

Creator: Photograph by Rowland Scherman, Peace Corps, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.