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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-08-A
AR38, KN38
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.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-D
President John F. Kennedy presents members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest 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 (very back); Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Richard Emerson (partially hidden); Barry Bishop; Dick Pownall (very back, wearing glasses); Lute Jerstad (motioning toward the President); Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu (behind Jerstad); Barry Prather (behind Gombu); Sherpa guide Girmi Dorje (right of Gombu); Jim Whittaker (behind Dorje); President Kennedy (wearing scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Gombu); James Lester; Dave Dingman; Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; and unidentified. White House Secret Service agent Emory Roberts stands at far left in background. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]