Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

President John F. Kennedy greets the first group of departing Peace Corps Volunteers, leaving for Tanganyika and Ghana, in the the Oval Office.

Photographer: Robert Knudsen/White House, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

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President John F. Kennedy establishes The Peace Corps by executive order on March 1, 1961. 

Here, a 1961 brochure for the Peace Corps.

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