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.
I took this photo on my visit to the Jamaica post in October 2010. We went to the eastern most tip of the island to visit with Volunteers who took us to one of the school sites. This picture shows several primary school children that were allowed...
A Volunteer is shown building a school near the town of Riyo Hizo, a small village on the Ethiopian frontier. He is a full-time school constructor in Somalia.
A Volunteer is shown building a school near the town of Riyo Hizo, a small village on the Ethiopian frontier. He is a full-time school constructor in Somalia.
Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
This Volunteer teaches welding to juvenile delinquents in Marrakesh at the Industrial Arts School located in the Casbah. When John arrived, there were very little tools available. A junk dealer donated an old school bus to the school and since that...