Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C1-20-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend a departure ceremony in their honor, following a state visit to Mexico. In foreground (L-R): Chief of Protocol of Mexico, Federico A. Mariscal; General Cristóbal Guzmán Cárdenas; President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos; First Lady of Mexico, Eva Sámano de López Mateos; Eva López Mateos (behind Mrs. López Mateos); U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes; Chief of the Presidential General Staff of Mexico, Major General José Gómez Huerta. Also pictured: Fanny Gamboa de Carrillo Flores (wife of Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Antonio Carrillo Flores); President of the Permanent Commission of the Mexican Congress, Rómulo Sánchez Mireles; Mrs. Rómulo Sánchez Mireles; President of the Supreme Court of Mexico, Alfonso Guzmán Neyra; Adela Rodríguez de Guzmán Neyra; Guadalupe Macías de Tello; Foreign Minister of Mexico, Manuel Tello; Guadalupe Borja de Díaz Ordaz; Minister of the Interior of Mexico, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz; Director General of the Institute of Social Security of Mexico, Benito Coquet; Special Assistant to President López Mateos, Justo Sierra; Private Secretary to President López Mateos, Humberto Romero Pérez. Members of an honor guard stand in the background. Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico.