I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Saturday, October 12, 1963, as Columbus Day, commemorating the four hundred and seventy-first anniversary of the sighting of land in the New World by Columbus and his crew.
Proclamation 3555—Columbus Day, 1963
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