A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
This was the sign placed at our headquarters building in Lahore, Pakistan - we shared the building with a dentist's office. The Urdu reads 'Amriki Dostamin.'
Tonga on the street in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan back in 1962 - this was the equivalent of a cab and what we used when we left the train station. They were highly and brightly decorated and carried up to six people at once. See also the picture of...
Sarge was open and frank in his discussions with Philippine Group III Volunteers. We asked him about how the organization came to be named “Peace Corps,” if he thought that name wasn’t a bit pretentious and fatuous given the kind of...
Sargent Shriver conducting an open discussion among members of Philippines Group III, May 1963. The location was Tolosa, Leyte at the beach home of House Speaker Daniel Romaldez. Just moments before the appearance of Shriver, he took an overseas...
This photo shows Sargent Shriver conducting an impromptu discussion in Tolosa Leyte with Group III Volunteer Don Smith as Volunteer Bill Pearre looks on.
Tolosa Leyte, where the meeting was conducted, was code-named “White Beach” when General Douglas MacArthur and the American forces invaded Leyte in October 1944. MacArthur’s famous “I shall return” landing took place just a few yards from...
I took these images in Lahore, Pakistan in 1961. The man started in the morning restringing his Charpai (rope bed). He finished about dusk. The children just appeared.