Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21279
President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister of Great Britain, Harold Macmillan, attend a program at the White House to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Congressional Medal of Honor; visitors include descendants of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. Left to right: Marshall B. Wenger (great-great-grandson of two of the first recipients of the Medal, Jacob Parrott and Wilson W. Brown); unidentified; Prime Minister Macmillan; President Kennedy; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas (in back, partially hidden); Chairman of the District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Commission, Paul J. Sedgwick; unidentified (obscured by microphones); and President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Luther Skaggs, Jr. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.