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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy speaks at a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Techo Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia, marking the construction of homes and schools built through the Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso). On platform (L-R): United States Ambassador to Colombia Fulton Freeman (partially hidden); unidentified; President Kennedy; President of Colombia Alberto Lleras Camargo; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. White House Secret Service agents Arthur L. “Art” Godfrey and Roy Kellerman (faces obscured), stand to right of platform. Colombian military police, reporters, and photographers stand on either side of platform. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
