Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (center) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (leaning forward) stand in an open car to greet members of the 2506th Cuban Invasion Brigade at the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami, Florida. Standing in foreground, left of car (left to right): Erneido Oliva, second in command of the brigade (in back); Jose Pérez San Román, commander of the brigade; Manuel Artime, civilian chief of the brigade; former Prime Minister of Cuba and chairman of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, Dr. José Miró Cardona; unidentified. Seated in car: White House Secret Service agent, Bill Greer (in driver's seat, partially hidden near bottom edge of frame; Mayor of Miami, Robert King High (in back seat, mostly hidden behind the First Lady). Secret Service agent, Ronald "Ron" Pontius checks his watch at right. The Brigade was comprised of Cuban exiles who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961.