Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with Russian cosmonaut Major Gherman S. Titov during his visit to the White House. Left to right: Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin (on edge of image); interpreter Walter Skuby; American astronaut Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.; President Kennedy; Major Titov; interpreter Ivan Shklyar. West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C.