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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-11-17-A
AR29, ST16, KN25
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-24992
Chaplain of the United States Senate, Reverend Frederick Brown Harris (at lectern), delivers the invocation at the dedication ceremony for Dulles International Airport, named after the late Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles; President John F. Kennedy stands left of lectern. Standing on speakers’ platform (L-R): former Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), General Elwood R. “Pete” Quesada; Janet Avery Dulles (widow of former Secretary Dulles); unidentified; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (mostly hidden); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; President Kennedy; Reverend Harris; Administrator of the FAA, Najeeb Halaby; Governor of Virginia, Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower; unidentified (in back); Aline B. Saarinen (widow of the architect for the airport, Eero Saarinen); unidentified (in back); former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Allen W. Dulles. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Walt Coughlin and Ken Giannoules. Chantilly, Virginia. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]