Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6887-A
President John F. Kennedy (center) presents Solon B. Turman (wearing a striped tie) with the American Legion Merchant Marine Achievement Award. Left to right: unidentified; Representative Thor C. Tollefson of Washington; three unidentified men; Senator John Marshall Butler of Maryland; President Kennedy; unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Commander of the Robert L. Hague Merchant Marine Industries Post No. 1242, James A. McQuilling; Thomas A. McQuilling (son of James A. McQuilling; center, front); Manager of the Ocean Tanker Department of the American Oil Company, Thomas M. McQuilling; Mr. Turman; four unidentified men. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.