Mona Lisa' exhibited in Washington

At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the 'Mona Lisa', is exhibited for the first time in America. Over 2,000 dignitaries, including President John F. Kennedy, came out that evening to view the famous painting. The next day, the exhibit opened to the public, and during the next three weeks an estimated 500,000 people came to see it. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Andre Malraux, the French minister of culture, arranged the loan of the painting from the Louvre Museum in Paris to the United States.