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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-08-A
AR38, KN38
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-I
President John F. Kennedy stands with members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) Unidentified White House Police officer; unidentified; President Kennedy; Allen Auten; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall (behind Hornbein); Barry Bishop; Barry Prather; Lute Jerstad; Barry Corbet; Dr. Gil Roberts (very back); Sherpa guide Girmi Dorje (partially hidden); Dave Dingman; Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Horizontal line across the top of the image is original to the file print.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-G
National Geographic Society (NGS) President, Melville B. Grosvenor (at microphones), speaks during the presentation of the NGS Hubbard Medal to members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; President John F. Kennedy observes from right. (L-R) Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; White House Secret Service agent Emory Roberts (very back); Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington; Allen Auten (partially hidden by Grosvenor); Grosvenor; Tom Hornbein; Barry Bishop; Dick Pownall (very back, behind Gombu); Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu; Lute Jerstad; Barry Corbet; President Kennedy; Dave Dingman (partially hidden behind the President); Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.