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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21140
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses) visits Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to view a demonstration of United States Navy and Marine Corps amphibious landing operations at Onslow Beach, during his trip to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Standing with President Kennedy in the reviewing stand at Riseley Pier are (L-R): Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shahanshah of Iran (in the United States on a state visit); Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (partially hidden); Admiral Robert L. Dennison, Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Command (CINCLANT), Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT); Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General David M. Shoup; and Congressman Carl Vinson (Georgia).