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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA. Copyright restrictions
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA. Copyright restrictions
Mary Woodward Lasker
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Mary Woodward Lasker

American, 1900 - 1994
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Mary Lasker was a well-known and successful health activist and philanthropist; cofounder of the Lasker Foundation; founder of the National Health Education Committee;
the president of the Birth Control Federation of America; the winner of a Presidential
Medal of Freedom (1969) and the Congressional Gold Medal (1989). She was a personal
acquaintance of John F. Kennedy and later, after his death, a close friend of several
members of the Kennedy family. Lasker worked as an art dealer at Reinhardt Galleries in New York City. She married the owner Paul Reinhardt.