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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-06-A
KN36, ST25
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-11-A
ST11
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-03-23-C
KN13
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C168-14-63
President John F. Kennedy (center) greets astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper and his family on the walkway outside the Oval Office upon their arrival at the White House for Major Cooper’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) presentation ceremony. Standing behind Major Cooper are his wife, Trudy, and his daughters, Camala and Janita. Hattie Cooper, mother of Major Cooper, stands next to President Kennedy (back to camera). Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands in front of open door of presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental convertible); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard, and Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, stand at right in foreground (backs to camera). Jewell D. Truscott and James J. Truscott, Major Cooper’s aunt and uncle, walk in front of Captain Shepard and General Clifton. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Sam Kinney and Roy Kellerman; United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton. South Lawn driveway, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-268-44-62
President John F. Kennedy receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during commencement exercises at Yale University. President of Yale University, Dr. Alfred Whitney Griswold, reads the citation at right; University Secretary, Dr. Reuben A. Holden, stands right of Dr. Griswold. University Chief Marshal, Dr. Richard L. Purdy (left), and University Corporation Marshal, Dr. Frederick W. Hilles, stand behind President Kennedy. Also pictured (at left in background): White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Roy Kellerman. Old Campus, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. [Photograph by Harold Sellers] [Blemishes on image are original to the negative.]