Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21158
President John F. Kennedy (looking through binoculars) watches U.S. Atlantic Fleet sea and air power demonstrations from the captain's chair on the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, at sea off the coast of North Carolina. Commander Harold F. Lang, USS Enterprise Operations Officer (in profile), stands left of President Kennedy; 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), stands at far left, smoking a cigarette. Naval Aide to the President Captain Tazewell Shepard, Jr. (in back, partially hidden) stands right of Admiral Dennison; others are unidentified. [Discoloration in lower right corner of image is original to the negative.]