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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. CA5-21-WH63
Official State Department Reception after JFK Funeral
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. CA5-21-WH63

Official State Department Reception after JFK Funeral

Monday, November 25, 1963 - Tuesday, November 26, 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson held a official state department reception in Washington D.C. following President Kennedy's funeral. It was attended by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Austrian Chancellor Alfons Gorbach, King Baudouin of Belgium, Jamaican Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante, French President Charles de Gaulle, South Korean Acting President Park Chung Hee, Japanese President Hayato Ikeda, Israeli President Zalman Shazar, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, Irish President Éamon de Valera, West German President Heinrich Lübke, West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, Filipino President Diosdado Macapagal, and Turkish President İsmet İnönü.
Dignitary (American, 1908 - 1973)
Dignitary (Canadian, 1897 - 1972)
Dignitary (French, 1890 - 1970)
Dignitary (Korean, 1917 - 1979)
Dignitary (Israeli, 1889 - 1974)
Dignitary (Ethiopian, 1892 - 1975)
Dignitary (Irish, 1882 - 1975)
Dignitary (German, 1897 - 1977)
Dignitary (Philippine, 1910 - 1997)
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