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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-08-12-B
KN21
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-08-12-A
ST12, KN21
Moving image
President's Personal Pictures
JFKPPP-39
Silent motion picture containing informal footage of President John F. Kennedy and his family and guests over Labor Day weekend, 1963, at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and Squaw Island, Massachusetts. Included is footage of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Under Secretary of the Navy Paul B. "Red" Fay, Jr., Anita Fay, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne) Billings, Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford, and others who are unidentified. At President Kennedy's Hyannis Port residence, President Kennedy and CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) correspondent Walter Cronkite sit in chairs on the lawn as preparations are made for the filming of a television show.Photography by: Cecil W. Stoughton.
Source: Paul Fisher, White House, Box 17, Item 39.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-077-001
This scrapbook, compiled by John F. “Jack” Kennedy, documents his time serving in the United States Navy during World War II from 1941 through 1944, including his assignment in the Solomon Islands and his command of the motor torpedo boat, PT-109, as well as time spent on leave with family and friends. The gold stamped title on the front cover reads, “J.F.K.” The scrapbook contains photographic prints, newspaper and magazine clippings, several pieces of correspondence, and other types of printed ephemera. Of note are clippings related to the rescue of the PT-109 crew near the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean following its sinking by a Japanese destroyer; Jack’s receipt of the Navy and Marine Corps medal for his actions in the aftermath of the attack on PT-109; his brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.’s military service and death while piloting a U.S. Navy aircraft over Blythburgh, East Suffolk, England; the marriage of his sister, Kathleen Kennedy, to William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington; and Billy Hartington’s death while serving in the British Army. Photographs show Jack in the Solomon Islands singly and with fellow U.S. Navy sailors, including George H. R. “Barney” Ross, James A. “Jim” Reed, Paul B. “Red” Fay, Allan “Al” Webb, Leon Emery Drawdy, Edman Edgar Mauer, Edmund T. Drewitch, John Edward Maguire, Charles Albert Harris, Maurice L. Kowal, Andrew Jackson Kirksey, and Leonard "Lenny" Thom. Also pictured is Jack in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts and Palm Beach, Florida, with family, including his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; siblings, Joseph, Jr., Kathleen, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy; cousin, Joseph Francis "Joey" Gargan, Jr.; and friends, Jim Reed, Julia Reed, Lenny Thom, Catherine “Kate” Thom, Barney Ross, Nancy Tenney, Red Fay, Bernie Lyons, Torbert Macdonald, and John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr. Others who are pictured are U.S. Navy commissioned officers who served in the South West Pacific theater, including Commander Henry Charles Farrow, Jr.; Lt. Commander Robert Bolling Kelly; Commodore Edward J. “Mike” Moran; and Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Of note are two typed letters detailing Jack’s military orders during World War II; clippings related to and photographs of Jack receiving the Navy and Marine Corps Medal from Captain Frederick L. Conklin at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts; a typed letter awarding him a Purple Heart medal for injuries he sustained during his command of PT-109; a typed letter awarding him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal; a printed compilation of news releases issued by the “So-Pac Press,” a publication of the U.S. Naval Command in the South Pacific; a printed list of wartime instructions that American service members could distribute to native peoples in case of an emergency landing on one of the Solomon Islands; and a postcard sent to Jack with a handwritten message from his brother, Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy, postmarked from Palestine and featuring an image of Jerusalem. This scrapbook contains 66 photographic prints and postcards, 64 newspaper and periodical clippings (including several full periodical pages), four typed letters, and two other printed documents.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C25-5-62
President John F. Kennedy (right) and his sister Patricia “Pat” Kennedy Lawford (left) arrive at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to attend mass at Our Lady Queen of Peace church. Walking behind are Under Secretary of the Navy Paul B. “Red” Fay (between the President and Mrs. Lawford) and White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring (over President Kennedy’s shoulder). All others are unidentified.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23186
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses and leather jacket) sits in a leather armchair on the deck of the United States Coast Guard boat "Guardian II" (officially designated as PT-809), in the waters of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. President Kennedy's sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford (facing away from camera, holding teacup), sits in chair at right, and Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. “Red” Fay (also facing away), sits in chair at left.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23183
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses and leather jacket) sits in a leather armchair on the deck of the United States Coast Guard boat "Guardian II" (officially designated as PT-809), in the waters of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. President Kennedy's sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford (facing away from camera), sits in chair at right, and Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. “Red” Fay (also facing away), sits in chair at left.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23211
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses and leather jacket) stands on the deck of United States Coast Guard utility boat "Horsewhip II" off the coast of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Standing in group behind President Kennedy (L-R): Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. “Red” Fay; the President's sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford. An unidentified U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and three unidentified officers also stand on the boat.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23185
President John F. Kennedy (center right, wearing sunglasses and leather jacket) sits in a leather armchair on the deck of the United States Coast Guard boat "Guardian II" (officially designated as PT-809), in the waters of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. President Kennedy's sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford (facing away from camera), sits in chair at right, and Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. “Red” Fay (also facing away), sits in chair at left. An unidentified server (wearing white coat) stands at left.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23198
President John F. Kennedy (center left, wearing sunglasses) and others sail aboard the United States Coast Guard yacht "Manitou" off the coast of Johns Island, Maine; President Kennedy's sister, Patricia Lawford, stands at the helm of the boat. Seated on board the boat, facing away from camera (L-R): Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. "Red" Fay; Kennedy family friend, Charles Spalding; the President's brother-in-law, Peter Lawford. Also pictured: Anita Marcus Fay (seated beside the President, mostly obscured); Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, James A. Reed (seated right of Mrs. Lawford).
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C25-4-62
President John F. Kennedy (near center left) stands on the deck of United States Coast Guard utility boat "Horsewhip II" off the coast of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Also standing on the boat (L-R): Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. "Red" Fay; President Kennedy's sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford; an unidentified U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant; the President; White House Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman (in back); Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (mostly obscured). An unidentified Coast Guard officer (holding a rope) stands on the boat's foredeck at far right. Numerous boats sit in the harbor in the background.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C25-2-62
President John F. Kennedy (center right) and others stand on the deck of United States Coast Guard utility boat "Horsewhip II" off the coast of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Left to right: Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul B. "Red" Fay; President Kennedy's sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Naval Aide to the President, Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back); the President (in foreground); White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger.