Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-188-004
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s address at the opening ceremony of the 1963 World Food Congress held at the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, D.C. In his speech the President discusses his administration's "Food for Peace" program and explains that any concerted effort to eliminate world hunger must be comprehensive, international in scope, and based on the premise that nations facing food crises are capable of solving these problems with foreign assistance.