Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C28952
President John F. Kennedy (center, holding framed object) visits with military officers and others aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), at sea off the coast of San Diego. Left to right: Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; President Kennedy; Commanding Officer of the USS Kitty Hawk, Captain Horace Hardaway Epes, Jr.; Executive Officer of the USS Kitty Hawk, Captain William E. Donnelly, Jr.; Special Assistant to the President, Kenneth P. O'Donnell (in back); Boatswain's Mate, Second Class, Jesse R. "J. R." Johnson.