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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-08-A
AR38, KN38
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-M
President John F. Kennedy (right) visits with the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest and their families in the Rose Garden; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. From left of center column (L-R): Richard Emerson; James Ramsey Ullman (partially hidden); Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Dick Pownall (very back, behind Dyhrenfurth); President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; President Kennedy (holding scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Nawang Gombu); Barry Bishop (partially hidden, behind President Kennedy); Dr. Gil Roberts (behind Bishop); Jim Lester; Jim Whittaker (behind Lester); and Barry Corbet. Members of the family at left are unidentified. White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”] [Vertical line on the right side of the image is original to the file print.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-J
President John F. Kennedy (left) speaks with members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) Barry Bishop; Tom Hornbein (partially hidden by Bishop); Dick Pownall (behind Hornbein); President Kennedy (holding scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Sherpa Nawang Gombu); Lute Jerstad; Jim Whittaker; Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth (facing Kennedy); Barry Corbet; James Lester (partially hidden); Dr. Gil Roberts; and Dave Dingman. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-I
President John F. Kennedy stands with members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) Unidentified White House Police officer; unidentified; President Kennedy; Allen Auten; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall (behind Hornbein); Barry Bishop; Barry Prather; Lute Jerstad; Barry Corbet; Dr. Gil Roberts (very back); Sherpa guide Girmi Dorje (partially hidden); Dave Dingman; Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Horizontal line across the top of the image is original to the file print.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-H
President John F. Kennedy (left, back to camera) greets members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington; President Kennedy; Dick Pownall; Tom Hornbein; Barry Bishop; Barry Prather (very back, behind Bishop); Lute Jerstad; Barry Corbet; Dr. Gil Roberts (partially hidden, behind Corbet); Dave Dingman; James Lester (partially hidden, behind Dingman); Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.