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Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-143-007
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks at the White House Correspondents' and News Photographers' Associations dinner held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-012-004
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s address to White House press correspondents at a dinner held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-27-D
AR19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-01-18-B
AR31, ST19
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-037-041
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's remarks at the White House Correspondents and News Photographers Associations dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Materials in this folder include a banquet program and name card, in addition to various memoranda, a draft written by Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, and an additional typescript of the speech. Of note are several items with handwritten notations by the President.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-HA
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. President Kennedy meets silversmith William de Matteo of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. De Matteo made the lanterns that were presented to the President at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. The two men in the background are unidentified.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-G
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy; pianist Joseph Seiger (partially hidden); actor Joey Bishop; Bishop's manager Joe Merman (behind Bishop); unidentified man.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-F
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy; violinist Mischa Elman; opera singer Jerome Hines.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-E
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) actor Ralph Bellamy; President Kennedy; actress Dorothy Provine.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-C
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy; orchestra leader Eddie Pierce; singer and actress Julie London; London's accompanist Al Viola.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-A
President John F. Kennedy poses with a group at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Columnist Holmes Alexander; Orchestra Leader Eddie Pierce; Teddy Piero and Hector Piero (jugglers known as "The Piero Brothers"); actress and singer Julie London; President Kennedy; actress Dorothy Provine; violinist Mischa Elman; actor Ralph Bellamy (behind Elman); actor Joey Bishop; opera singer Jerome Hines (behind Bishop); pianist Joseph Seiger; Bishop's manager Joe Merman (behind Seiger), producer of the White House Correspondents' Show Joel Margolis.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-U
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Sheraton-Park, Washington, D.C. (L-R) unidentified man; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-S
President John F. Kennedy poses with a group at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Reporter for The Baltimore Sun and newly-elected president of the White House Correspondents' Association William H.Y. Knighton, Jr.; President Kennedy; Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; General Manager of the Sheraton Park Hotel George Johnson; reporter for The Washington Star and out-going president of the White House Correspondents' Association Garnett D. Horner.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-Q
President John F. Kennedy talks with reporter for The Baltimore Sun and president of the White House Correspondents' Association William H.Y. Knighton, Jr. at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-P
President Kennedy presents a watch made by the Hamilton Watch Company to Dr. Walter Tkach at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. Dr. Tkach (left) was an assistant White House physician during the Eisenhower administration. Reporter for The Baltimore Sun and president of the White House Correspondents' Association William H.Y. Knighton, Jr. stands behind President Kennedy.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-O
Head table at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren; reporter for The Baltimore Sun and newly-elected president of the White House Correspondents' Association William H. Y. Knighton, Jr.; President John F. Kennedy; reporter for The Washington Star and out-going president of the White House Correspondents' Association Garnett D. Horner.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-N
Head table at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Postmaster General J. Edward Day; New York Herald Tribune reporter Donald Wise; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; editor of the Washington Star and president of the Associated Press Benjamin M. McKelway; Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-M
Garnett D. Horner, reporter for the Washington Star and the out-going president of the White House Correspondents' Association, presents two silver lanterns to President John F. Kennedy at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. The lanterns are replicas of the lanterns hung in the Old North Church of Boston on April 18 1775.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-M11-1-61
One of two silver lanterns, given to President John F. Kennedy by the White House Correspondents' Association, hanging in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. The lanterns are replicas of the lanterns hung in the Old North Church of Boston, Massachusetts, on April 18, 1775, and were made by William de Matteo, the silversmith from Colonial Williamsburg. [See also MO 63.4860.1-.2, "Reproduction of Old North Church Lantern(s)"]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-L
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy; actor Joey Bishop; unidentified man; producer of the White House Correspondents' Association's show Joel Margolis.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-K
President John F. Kennedy talks with actor Ralph Bellamy at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-J
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Actress Dorothy Provine; President Kennedy; opera singer Jerome Hines.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-I
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy; Teddy Piero; Hector Piero. The Pieros form a juggling team known as "The Piero Brothers."
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-HB
President John F. Kennedy speaks with orchestra leader Eddie Pierce at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-D
President John F. Kennedy talks with guests at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy; singer and actress Julie London; London's accompanist Al Viola.