Visit of President Kennedy to Ireland. Cork was not originally on President Kennedy’s itinerary, but he decided that he would like to visit. He travelled to Cork by helicopter. JFK was made a Freeman of Cork at City Hall. Dublin 1963.

An enthusiastic crowd presses in to greet President John F. Kennedy in a field in Cork, 1963. Having arrived by the US Army helicopter visible behind him, the president smiles and reaches out to the onlookers. Cork was an unscheduled addition to his official Irish itinerary, a visit during which he was made a Freeman of the City.

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