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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6669-A
President John F. Kennedy prepares to sign the H.R. 6713 Public Law 87-61 Federal Aid Highway Act, amending certain laws and other provisions regarding the Federal highway program. (L-R) Congressman John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin), Senator John Sherman Cooper (Kentucky), Congressman Noah M. Mason (Illinois), Congressman Gordon H. Scherer (Ohio), Congressman Thomas J. O’Brien (Illinois), Congressman Wilbur Mills (Arkansas), Senator Robert Kerr (Oklahoma), Senator Harry F. Byrd (Virginia), Congressman John McCormack (Massachusetts), Senator Francis Case (South Dakota), President Kennedy (seated at desk), Senator Pat McNamara (Michigan), Senator Dennis Chávez (New Mexico), Congressman John A. Blatnik (Minnesota), Congressman George H. Fallon (Maryland), Senator Maurine Neuberger (Oregon), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, two unidentified men, and Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8255-3N
Members of the Kennedy family, officials, and dignitaries attend graveside services in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy (holding folded flag), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts) stand in foreground; the eternal flame is in center (foreground). Also pictured: President Lyndon B. Johnson; Prime Minister of Japan, Hayato Ikeda; Vice President of Liberia, William R. Tolbert, Jr.; President of Germany, Heinrich Lübke; President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera; Minister of External Affairs of Ireland, Frank Aiken; Prince Georg Valdemar of Denmark; President of the Senate of Australia, Sir Alister McMullin; Ambassador of Ecuador, Dr. José Antonio Correa Escobar; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Joseph Luns; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands; President of Congress of Nicaragua, Luis Somoza Debayle; President of the Corporate Chamber of Portugal, Clotário Luís Supico Pinto; Prince Jean of Luxembourg; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Japan, Ryuji Takeuchi; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Ambassador of Pakistan, Ghulam Ahmed; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Virginia Rusk; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon; Representative T. Ashton Thompson (Louisiana); U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, John C. Metzler; White House Secret Service agents, Paul Rundle and Rufus Youngblood. Honor guard pallbearers stand at attention, including: Lance Corporal Jerry J. Diamond (USMC), Yeoman George A. Barnum (USCG), Lieutenant Samuel R. Bird (U.S. Army), Seaman Hubert Clark (USN), Sergeant James L. Felder (U.S. Army), Lance Corporal Timothy F. Cheek (USMC), Sergeant Richard E. Gaudreau (USAF), Seaman Larry B. Smith (USN), and Corporal Douglas A. Mayfield (U.S. Army). Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.