Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-091-001
This photograph album documents the opening of the John F. Kennedy Library traveling exhibit in Athens, Greece, in February 1965. The exhibit, which toured locations throughout Europe, was a showcase of photographs, artifacts, and documents related to President John F. Kennedy and his time in office; a similar exhibit also toured cities throughout the United States. Those pictured include President Kennedy’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Prime Minister of Greece, Georgios Papandreou; U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Henry R. Labouisse; and various unidentified Greek and U.S. officials. Also pictured is Chrysanthemis "Memi" Papacotsis, a young girl from Greece who had undergone heart surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in 1962; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy had helped to arrange the operation and Memi’s flight to the U.S. aboard an Air Force airplane. Pictured with Memi, among others, is her father, Spiridon Papacotsis. This photograph album contains 45 photographic prints.