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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy speaks with Peace Corps volunteers following 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). Director of the United States Secret Service James J. Rowley (at left, partially hidden) and White House Secret Service agent Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (right of President Kennedy) stand in crowd. Colombian military police stand in foreground. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
