AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Col. and Mrs. Alan B. Shepard, Sr., right, parents of Alan B. Shepard, the nation?s first astronaut stand proudly at the White House on May 8, 1961 in...

Space man Alan B. Shepard Jr. takes medal from President John F, Kennedy after the medal was dropped by the chief executive on May 8, 1961at White Hou...

Cmdr. Alan Shepard Jr., Mrs. Shepard and the astronaut?s father, Alan Shepard Sr., third from left, listen to President Kennedy speaking at the White...

Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the United States? first man to make a space flight, and his wife are all smiles as they listen to President Kennedy after Shepa...

President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy greets Alan B. Shepard and his wife Louise as the United State???s first astronaut landed on the Whit...

President John F. Kennedy and Wife Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at the Community Center to attend Mass. The Rev. Albert F. Periera held the services on...

A jubilant Mrs. Katherine Price of Miami, Fla., leads her horse Carry Back from the winner???s circle at Churchill Downs after winning the Kentucky De...

President John F. Kennedy signs a bill which places another 3,624,000 workers under the minimum wage law and increasing the minimum for those already...

Members of an interracial group pose on May 4, 1961 in Washington with a map of a route they plan to take to test segregation in bus terminal restaura...

President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy stand with their guests President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and his wife in the White House, Washin...

President John F. Kennedy and a visitor, President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, sit together in an auto at Washington National Airport on May 3, 1961....

President John Kennedy talks with President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and Mrs.Jacqueline Kennedy talks with Mrs. Mathilde Bourguiba at Washington Na...

President John F Kennedy receives an honorary doctor of law degree from George Washington University at ceremonies in Washington on May 3, 1961. At t...

President John F, Kennedy enters the White House on April 30, 1961 after landing on the south grounds of the Mansion in a helicopter. The Chief Execut...

President John Kennedy acknowledges applause from Democrats attending a $100-a-plate dinner on April 28, 1961 at Chicago?s McCormick Place exposition...

Frederick Boland, President of the 15th General Assembly of the United Nations, President John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the Uni...

President John Kennedy addresses annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American newspaper publishers association at the hotel Waldorf-Asto...

President John Kennedy poses on April 27, 1961 at the White House in Washington, with a delegation director of the North Carolinians, headed by Gov....

Congolese workers remove the bust of famous explorer Henry Stanley from the airport road at Stanleyville, Congo on April 27, 1961. The bust was remove...

President John Kennedy poses in his White House office on April 27, 1961 in Washington, with Dr. W.H. Fitzjohn, charge d?affaires of the Sierra Leone...

Senator Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat from the farm state of Minnesota, and M.W. Thatcher, right, of St. Paul, Minn. Point to each other, as they pose w...

President John Kennedy points along with President Sukarno of Indonesia as they sit in the rear of an open car just before leaving on April 24, 1961 i...

President Sukarno of Indonesia and President John Kennedy review the honor guard as Sukarno arrives on April 24, 1961 at Andrews Air Force Base near W...

President Kennedy signs a bill on April 24, 1961 in his White House office in Washington, calling for the striking of medals in commemoration of the 2...

Italian actress Sophia Loren is kissed by Hollywood actor Charlton Heston (wearing scene costume) during a party marking the start of interior scene o...

French officials posing at the entrance at a hotel in Matignon, France, April 18, 1961, are M. Michel Bebre, Guy Perillat, M. Crabos and Maurice Herz...

President John Kennedy shakes hands with J.M. Udochi, ambassador of Nigeria, at a Washington reception, on April 15, 1961 marking ??sAfrican Freedom D...

President John F. Kennedy with sister Mrs. Stephen Smith shown as they watched the horses being readied for the 40th annual Glenwood Park Hunt on Apri...

President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Pat American Union on April 14, 1961 where the Chief Executive will address the organization of American States....

President Kennedy, speaking in the hall of the Americas of the Pan American Union, called upon the Organization of American State to take the lead in...

President Kennedy chats with Alex Rose, President of the United Hatters, cap and Millinery Workers Union, at the White House, Washington on April 13,...

President Kennedy shakes hands with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany as he arrives at the White House, Washington on April 12, 1961 for a se...

President Kennedy shakes hands with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany as he arrives at the White House, Washington on April 12, 1961 for a se...

The yacht Christina, with Sir Winston Churchill aboard, moves up the Hudson River against backdrop of New York skyline on April 12, 1961. Churchill...

President Kennedy and William O. Cooper, national commander of the Disabled American Veterans pose together at the White House on April 12, 1961 in Wa...

President Kennedy, who will be the American League ??sstarting pitcher??? by throwing out the opening pitch of the season at Griffith stadium in Washi...

Joseph Luns, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, talks with President Kennedy in the President???s White House office on April 10, 1961 in Washington...

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain and President Kennedy pose on the White House grounds, in Washington on April 8, 1961 after issuing a...

President Kennedy holds Helen Keller???s hand during a meeting with the 80-year-old blind and deaf woman, a world leader on behalf of the handicapped,...

President Kennedy greets Rep. John Rooney, D-N.Y., on the White House lawn on April 7, 1961 in Washington. Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Will...

A sailor keeps the presidential yacht Honey Fitz away from the dock on April 6, 1961 as President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan,...

Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, during survival training in the Mohave Desert, California, April 1961. (AP Photo)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg pictured with her two dogs in the garden of her villa at the outskirts of Rome on March 28, 1961. Anita Ekberg has for ma...

Ball bounces away from basket after shot by Providence???s Jim Hadnot on play in which Glen Mankowski (33) drew a foul in first half of National Invit...

Don Reid of St. Louis is down along with Providence?s George Zalucki while Bill Nordmann of St. Louis almost spills on top of both in first half of Na...

President John F. Kennedy presents a Young American Medal for Bravery, March 23, 1961 to Shirley Frances O???Neill of San Francisco, who rescued a fel...

Charles (Bud) Wilkinson, University of Oklahoma football coach and newly-appointed special consultant to the President on youth fitness, poses with Pr...

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President John F. Kennedy chats with members of the House of Representatives at a White House coffee, March 22, 1961 in Washington. (AP Photo/Henry Bu...

President Kennedy talks with Simon Rifkind at the White House, Washington, March 22, 1961 after seeing him sworn in as chairman of the President???s R...