Summary

DescriptionJohn F. Kennedy nominates Adlai Stevenson 1956.JPG	Photo of Senator John F. Kennedy placing the name of Adlai Stevenson into nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate for 1956 in Chicago.
Date	Taken on August 16, 1956
Source	eBay photo
Author	UPI-United Press International
Permission (Reusing this file)	Pre-1978, no mark
Other versions	This file has an extracted image: John F. Kennedy nominates Adlai Stevenson 1956 (cropped).JPG.

Notes

Originally taken August 16, 1956 and was re-issued in 1960 after Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for president in 1960.

• To be certain the photo is in the public domain, original registrations in the artwork category were checked for the original year of the photo, 1956 and in 1960, when UPI re-issued this photo. No registrations for UPI or United Press International were found for either year. There's no evidence that copyright was ever filed for this photo.

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