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The Peace Corps: What Shape Shall it Take? (1961-03-12)
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Guests: President John F. Kennedy. Program opens with a ten minute segment in which President Kennedy is interviewed one-on-one by Eleanor Roosevelt, discussing the advent of the Peace Corps. The opening segment was recorded at the White House in Washington, DC on 3/5/1961, the day the President issued the executive order creating the Peace Corps. Balance of program was recorded in WTTG Studios in Washington, DC. Eleanor Roosevelt moderates, guests: Senator Humbert Humphrey, (D, Minnesota) chief supporter of legislation for the permanence and expansion of the Peace Corps, Chairman of Disarmament Subcommittee of Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Professor Samuel Hays, author of The Peace Corps Task Force Report, requested by President Kennedy, and a social scientist in the Department of Economics, at the University of Michigan. Senteca Kajubi, from Makerere College,University of East Africa in Uganda, which will receive the first group of Peace Corps teachers, presently at the University of Chicago; R. Sargent Shriver, Chairman of Chicago Board of Education, and newly named Director of the Peace Corps.
Directors & creators
WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
Peace Corps founding, Sargent Shriver, Hubert Humphrey, White House interview, Eleanor Roosevelt, Kennedy administration, Uganda, Makerere College, foreign aid, volunteerism, Cold War development policy, WGBH, 1961 television, executive order
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