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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-07-B
ST25, KN36
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29092
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses) views weapons demonstrations from his seat in the reviewing stand during his visit to Naval Air Facility (NAF) China Lake's Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) in China Lake, California. Seated in reviewing stand (left to right): Undersecretary of the Navy, Paul "Red" Fay; Senator Clair Engle of California (wearing safari hat); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), Admiral John H. Sides; Governor of California, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (face partially obscured); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn (mostly obscured); President Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (in back); Commander of NOTS, Captain Charles Blenman, Jr.; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; unidentified; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; unidentified (facing away); Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C206-72-63
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses and shielding his eyes) views weapons demonstrations from his seat in the reviewing stand during his visit to Naval Air Facility (NAF) China Lake's Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) in China Lake, California. Left to right: unidentified (at edge of frame); Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul "Red" Fay; Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), Admiral John H. Sides; NOTS Technical Director, Dr. William B. McLean; Assistant Press Secretary, Malcolm Kilduff (standing in back); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (in back, partly obscured); Governor of California, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown; President Kennedy; Commander of NOTS, Captain Charles Blenman, Jr. (mostly obscured); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth (partly obscured); United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton (standing in back, holding camera); Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; unidentified (at edge of frame).