With the
Senate's ratification of the Limited Test Ban Treaty on 24 September 1963,
President Kennedy signed the treaty into law on 5 October. From left,
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) director William C. Foster,
Senate Majority Leader Michael Mansfield (D-Mt), Chairman, General Advisory
Committee to ACDA John C. McCloy, Vice Chairman Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy Senator John Pastore (D-RI), ACDA Deputy Director Adrian Fisher,
Ambassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman, Senator Fulbright, Senator George
Smathers (D-Fl), Secretary of State Dean Rusk (head showing), Senator
George Aiken (R-Vt), Senator Humphrey, Senator Everett Dirksen (D-lll),
and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. [Source: National Archives, Still Pictures Division, Department of State Collection 59-0, box 23.] |