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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-08-A
AR38, KN38
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-E
Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu presents a scarf, or “kata,” to President John F. Kennedy during the presentation of the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal to members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest. (L-R) President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; unidentified; Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Richard Emerson; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall (behind Hornbein); Nawang Gombu; Barry Bishop (partially hidden by Gombu); Barry Prather (behind Bishop); Lute Jerstad (to the right of Bishop and behind Gombu); Jim Whittaker (very back, behind Jerstad); President Kennedy; Dave Dingman; James Lester (behind Dingman); Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-D
President John F. Kennedy presents members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (very back); Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Richard Emerson (partially hidden); Barry Bishop; Dick Pownall (very back, wearing glasses); Lute Jerstad (motioning toward the President); Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu (behind Jerstad); Barry Prather (behind Gombu); Sherpa guide Girmi Dorje (right of Gombu); Jim Whittaker (behind Dorje); President Kennedy (wearing scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Gombu); James Lester; Dave Dingman; Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; and unidentified. White House Secret Service agent Emory Roberts stands at far left in background. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]