Handwritten on back--"Telegraph and Shattuck, school kids from Woodrow Wilson Junior High." Photo shows a line of African American students holding up two signs, one says "Hi Pres." and the other "Welcome Mr. Kennedy--Warriors." The occasion was a visit to the Bay Area by President Kennedy. From the Oakland Tribune, March 23, 1962, article by Al Martinez: "President Kennedy said today that the image of Communism as a universal system to abolish all social and international conflicts has already been shattered. He declared that mankind can now look forward to a world which will burst the bonds of totalitarianism and offer freedom as its goal. The message of optimism from the nation's Chief Executive was delivered to a cheering crowd of 88,000 who jammed Berkeley's Memorial Stadium on the 94th Charter Day of the University of California. The crowd-which filled the seats, lined the high rim of the stadium and packed all available standing space-was 3,000 more than anticipated. Kennedy spoke and Dr. Edward Strong was inaugurated as chancellor of the Berkeley U.C. campus under a dazzling blue sky that brought out an additional 150,000 people along the President's route from Alameda to Berkeley. The president said: 'From the perspective of Moscow, the world today may seem even more troublesome, intractable and frustrating than it does to us. The Communist world is confronted with acute internal problems in each country through the failure of agriculture, rising discontent of intellectuals, and the demands of technical and managerial groups for status and security.' The big presidential jet set down at 10:52 a.m. at the Alameda Naval Air Station and Kennedy stepped out, smiling and waving, to the blare of martial music and the rumble of gunfire. A 21-gun salute from a battery of three 155 mm artillery peices thundered. Students and adults hoisted signs and flags in welcome, and the President responded with words that were almost drowned out by the applause. Gov. Edmund G. Brown stepped forward to greet the President, accompanied by Edwin Pauley, chairman of the U.C. regents, and Vice Adm. Robert Goldthwaite, commander of the Western Sea Frontier. Then Kennedy entered his open convertible with the Governor, part of a 15-car motorcade, and the procession was off, following and followed by siren-screaming patrol cars and motorcycles of the Oakland and Alameda Police Departments and the California Highway Patrol. The motorcade dipped into the Posey Tube, turned on to Eighth St. in Oakland, then followed Broadway, Telegraph, Shattuck and University Avenues to the sprawling Berkeley campus of the University of California. Thousands cheered him along the eight miles from Alameda to Berkeley. Two-thousand sailors alone lined the route from the air station to the Posey Tube, guarding in polished array the path of one of the world's most important men. Additional signs and flags greeted the President all the way to U.C. In Oakland, where a crowd of 70,000 lined the streets, Kennedy was greeted by a burst of recorded Oriental music over a public address system in Chinatown, which he acknowledged with a wave and a broad smile. At 14th and Broadway, a crowd that stood three-deep suddenly surged forward from the sidewalks to get nearer the President. Confetti and striped paper fluttered from the tall buildings. Berkeley blossomed out with re, white and blue bunting along Shattuck and University Avenues and greetings were plastered on houses and buildings all along Fraternity row. Every shcool the presidential motorcade passed had signs that said 'Welcome Mr. president' and 'All the Way With JFK.' Flags also were in great abundance, and they fluttered in a gentle breeze, to make it a star-spangled pathway to the university." This photo was not used in the Oakland Tribune.