Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-105-5-62
President John F. Kennedy visits with members of the 1962 Mardi Gras Royal Court in the Rose Garden. King of Mardi Gras, Voris King, stands to right of President Kennedy; Queen of Mardi Gras, Rebekah Jo Hannie, stands at far right of image. Chairman of the Mardi Gras Ball, Representative T. Ashton Thompson (Louisiana), stands second from left; all others are unidentified. White House, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Dan Lewis]