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Yee Haw!
Many artists performed at the Kennedy White House, including the American Ballet Theater doing “Billy the Kid,” 5/22/62.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Art’s True Value
Listen to JFK speak at Amherst College, 10/26/63. In helping dedicate the Robert Frost Library he spoke of why society needs art.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Toasting the Greats
Read JFK’s welcoming words at a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, 4/29/62.
Courtesy NARA
Penned by Frost
This is the poem Robert Frost wrote for JFK. Were it not for the sun’s blazing glare, it would have been read at the inauguration.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
For Youth By Youth
The National Music Camp from Michigan dances at the White House, 8/6/62. One of many youth programs from Mrs. Kennedy.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Photo by Abbie Rowe
White House Anew
Mrs. Kennedy made big changes to the White House in 1962. Designers and curators were hired. Here she is in the new Treaty Room.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
