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President John F. Kennedy (center) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (leaning forward) stand in an open car to greet members of the 2506th Cuban Invasion Brigade at the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami, Florida. Standing in foreground, left of car (left to right): Erneido Oliva, second in command of the brigade (in back); Jose Pérez San Román, commander of the brigade; Manuel Artime, civilian chief of the brigade; former Prime Minister of Cuba and chairman of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, Dr. José Miró Cardona; unidentified. Seated in car: White House Secret Service agent, Bill Greer (in driver's seat, partially hidden near bottom edge of frame; Mayor of Miami, Robert King High (in back seat, mostly hidden behind the First Lady). Secret Service agent, Ronald "Ron" Pontius checks his watch at right. The Brigade was comprised of Cuban exiles who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961.
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President John F. Kennedy (center left) and former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (left, mostly hidden), greet attendees of the dedication ceremony for Dulles International Airport, named after the late Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Also pictured: Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; White House Secret Service agents, Stu Stout and Ron Pontius. Chantilly, Virginia.
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President John F. Kennedy and former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, tour the terminal building of Dulles International Airport at dedication ceremonies for the airport named after the late Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Left to right: Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (in back); General Eisenhower; President Kennedy (holding hat); Director of the Bureau of National Capital Airports, G. Ward Hobbs (in back, mostly hidden); White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (very back, partially hidden); Aline B. Saarinen (widow of the architect for the airport, Eero Saarinen); Representative Edward P. Boland of Massachusetts (in back); Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Lieutenant General Harold W. Grant; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back); Administrator of the FAA, Najeeb Halaby; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Chantilly, Virginia.
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President John F. Kennedy (in car) waves to a crowd following a congressional campaign rally at Weir Cook Municipal Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. Seated in convertible with President Kennedy: Governor of Indiana, Matthew E. Welsh; candidate for U.S. Senator from Indiana, Birch E. Bayh. White House Secret Service agents, Dick Johnsen, Ron Pontius, Bob Lilley, and Frank Yeager, surround car.
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President John F. Kennedy attends Columbus Day observances in front of City Hall in Newark, New Jersey, during a congressional campaign trip. Representative Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (New Jersey) and his son, Peter W. Rodino, III, stand left of President Kennedy; Mayor of Newark, Hugh J. Addonizio, stands right of the President. Also pictured: Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher (New Jersey); White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with officials from Pennsylvania following his arrival at Harrisburg-York State Airport in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, during a congressional campaign trip. In foreground (L-R): Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice, Earl S. Keim; Pennsylvania State Representative, Stephen McCann; Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Internal Affairs Secretary of Pennsylvania, Genevieve Blatt; Governor of Pennsylvania, David L. Lawrence; President Kennedy; candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania and former mayor of Philadelphia, Richardson Dilworth (back to camera). Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Walt Coughlin and Ron Pontius.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with officials from Pennsylvania following his arrival aboard a United States Army helicopter at Harrisburg-York State Airport in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, during a congressional campaign trip. In foreground (L-R): Pennsylvania State Representative, Stephen McCann; Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Internal Affairs Secretary of Pennsylvania, Genevieve Blatt; Governor of Pennsylvania, David L. Lawrence; President Kennedy; candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania and former mayor of Philadelphia, Richardson Dilworth; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, and Frank Yeager. Also pictured: Special assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Dave Powers; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard.
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President John F. Kennedy walks with Governor of Pennsylvania, David L. Lawrence (left), following his arrival aboard a United States Army helicopter at Harrisburg-York State Airport in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, during a congressional campaign trip. Also pictured: Internal Affairs Secretary of Pennsylvania, Genevieve Blatt; Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); White House Secret Service agents, Bob Lilley, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, Ron Pontius, and Frank Yeager.
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President John F. Kennedy (center) attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine); Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Lawrence O'Brien; White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Dave Powers; Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Lawrence O'Brien; White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring, Jerry Blaine, and Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Special Assistant to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell; Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine); Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Lawrence O'Brien; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine); Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Lawrence O'Brien; White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Lawrence O'Brien; White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy (center) applauds during a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Dave Powers; Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine); White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Special Assistant to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell; Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine); White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a football game between Harvard University and Columbia University. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Dave Powers; Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine); White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks during convocation at the University of Maine at Orono. Seated onstage: (first row) trustee W. Gordon Robertson; Representative Stanley R. Tupper (Maine); Senator Edmund S. Muskie (Maine); President of the University of Maine, Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott; Governor of Maine, John H. Reed; Senator Margaret Chase Smith (Maine); Representative Clifford G. McIntire (Maine); trustee Dr. Lawrence M. Cutler; (second row) Registrar and Director of Student Services, George H. Crosby; Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. H. Austin Peck; trustee Owen H. Smith; trustee Kermit S. Nickerson; trustee Hubert H. Hauck; trustee Robert N. Haskell; trustee Ralph H. Cutting; trustee Charles E. Crossland; trustee Rena C. Bowles; trustee Arthur H. Benoit; (third row) President of the General Student Senate, Lowell T. Sherwood, Jr.; Vice Chairman of the Faculty Council, Brooks W. Hamilton; President of the Associated Women Students, Mary F. Goucher; (fourth row) Dean of Women, Dr. Mary S. Zink; Dean of Men, John E. Stewart; Dean of the College of Education, Dr. Mark R. Shibles; Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Joseph M. Murray; Dean of the College of Agriculture, Winthrop C. Libby; Dean of the School of Law, Edward S. Godfrey, III; Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Franklin P. Eggert; Dean of the College of Technology, Dr. Thomas H. Curry. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Bill Duncan, Arthur L. “Art” Godfrey, Floyd Boring, and Ron Pontius, stands in front of platform. Alumni Memorial Athletic Field, Orono, Maine.
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President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. President Kennedy rides in a motorized cart with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell (driving), Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb, and Vice President of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Sanford N. McDonnell. Following in second cart: White House Secret Service agents, Roy Kellerman and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (driving). Also pictured (in foreground): Secret Service agents, Toby Chandler, Win Lawson, Joe Paolella, and Ron Pontius. President Kennedy visited the McDonnell plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
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President John F. Kennedy (left) views a mock-up of an Apollo command module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Rufus Youngblood. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks, following a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. President Kennedy holds a scale model of the Apollo command module, presented to him by Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; a mock-up of the lunar lander (also known as "the Bug") sits at left in background. Standing in back: Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Dr. Gilruth; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Photographers, including newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr., and members of the press observe at right. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. [See also MO 63.1913, "Model of Apollo Command Module"]
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President John F. Kennedy views Mercury spacecraft capsule #19, during a tour of Mercury systems and equipment inside Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston (center right), briefs President Kennedy; astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper (partially out of frame) stands at far right. Also pictured: Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. The President visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (wearing sunglasses) views models of the Titan II and Titan III missiles, during a tour of the Titan Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida; Director of Range Safety Operations with the Eastern Test Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Colonel Dan F. Thompson (center right), briefs President Kennedy. Standing in back: chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston; White House Secret Service agents, Rufus Youngblood and Ron Pontius. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy tours the Titan Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Director of Range Safety Operations with the Eastern Test Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Colonel Dan F. Thompson (center left, back to camera), briefs President Kennedy; models of the Titan II and Titan III missiles sit in foreground. Also pictured: Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (center foreground, partially hidden) tours the Titan Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida; a Titan II Air Force rocket sits on launch pad in background. Also pictured: Director of Range Safety Operations with the Eastern Test Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Colonel Dan F. Thompson; Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston; Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius, Bill Duncan, and Toby Chandler. Site workers observe in background. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (center, with back to camera) greets crowds at the groundbreaking ceremony for the San Luis Dam in Los Banos, California. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Tony Sherman, John Campion, and Ron Pontius.