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[Senator Lister Hill shovels the first spadeful of earth at the new National Library of Medicine groundbreaking ceremony]
[Senator Lister Hill shovels the first spadeful of earth at the new National Library of Medicine groundbreaking ceremony]
Photograph caption: At the groundbreaking ceremony for the new National Library of Medicine, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama shovels the first spadeful of earth as (from left) Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, Dr. Champ Lyons, Chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, Congressman Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin, and Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, watch. The ceremony for this new structure, to be located on the site of the old Glenbrook Golf Course, took place Friday afternoon, June 12.
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