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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-282-110-61
Cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Techo Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (on platform in background) attended the ceremony to mark the construction of homes and schools built in Techo (a suburb of Bogotá) through the Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso). Colombian military police stand at left. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]