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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20249
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) presents the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. at Hangar ‘S,’ Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. Standing on the platform, first row (L-R): astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., astronaut Captain Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Congressman George P. Miller (California), Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma), Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Kennedy, Lieutenant Colonel Glenn (with head down), Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (partially hidden behind Glenn), Glenn's wife Annie Glenn (wearing red dress), Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center Major General Leighton I. Davis, and Governor Farris Bryant of Florida. Second row, beginning at right of lectern (L-R): Senator George Smathers of Florida (partially hidden behind Brigadier General McHugh), astronaut Lieutenant Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Glenn's daughter Lyn Glenn (wearing yellow dress), his son David Glenn, astronaut Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter, and astronaut Major Donald K. “Deke” Slayton. Congressman Olin E. Teague of Texas (partially hidden behind Lieutenant Commander Schirra) and President Kennedy's brother-in-law Prince Stanislaus Radziwill of Poland (far right) stand in the third row; all others unidentified. The space capsule Friendship 7 is visible at far right.