If you love North Carolina history, this picture will hold significance for you. Here we have long-time UNC President Bill Friday, Governor Luther Hodges, Sr., Ted Kennedy, Rose Kennedy, Governor Terry Sanford, Billy Graham. That is undoubtedly an 'all-star' grouping of significant 20th century North Carolina, and national, leaders in government, education, and religion.
I am not 100% certain, but I believe the occasion has the Kennedy's in Chapel Hill to receive a NC contribution toward construction of JFK Presidential Library. Governor Sanford, the NC governor at the time of the photograph, was very close with the Kennedy's, being the first southern leader to endorse JFK for president. The portrait benind them, hanging in the Southern Historical Collection in The Wilson Library at UNC, is of Confederate Brigadiar General James Johnston Pettigrew.
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