6 December 1962

          President John F. Kennedy visits with the recipients of the first Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation International Awards in Mental Retardation. Left to right: Head of the Department of Microscopic Anatomy at the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Murray L. Barr; Director of the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois, Dr. Samuel A. Kirk; President of the National Association for Retarded Children, John Fettinger; President Kennedy; former professor of medicine of the University of Olso, Dr. Asbjørn Følling; Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, of the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in France; Dr. Joe Hin Tjio, of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.