This photograph of President John F. Kennedy talking with guests during a meeting on the National Cultural Center was taken by Cecil Stoughton in the East Room on October 8, 1963. The National Cultural Center would later become later known as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as a memorial to President Kennedy. The East Room is located on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion. The room is the largest room in the White House and is often used as a ceremonial space. The room is painted white and has 18th-century French and English-inspired ornate walls and ceiling. To make way for temporary furniture for ceremonies and holiday decorations, the East Room is usually sparsely furnished.

In this photograph taken by Harold Sellers, architect Edward Durell Stone speaks at the unveiling of a model of the proposed National Cultural Center in a ceremony at the Elms mansion in Newport, Rhode Island on September 11, 1962. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy with her mother, Janet Lee Auchincloss, sits in the first row behind the model. Eventually, this building became the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. There were also actors and entertainers in attendance including Geraldine Page, Danny Kaye, Joanne Woodward, and Paul Newman, among others.

This photograph is of President John F. Kennedy delivering remarks at the arrival ceremony in honor of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast on May 22, 1962. Pictured on the platform: President Houphouët-Boigny; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; U.S. Ambassador to the Ivory Coast R. Borden Reams; U.S. Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn. The event took place at Washington National Airport, later known as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and was photographed by Robert L. Knudsen.