Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23594
President John F. Kennedy (center, facing away from camera) stands on the steps outside Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island, with crew members of the yachts competing in the 1962 America’s Cup race, during a reception in their honor. Those standing in foreground include (L-R): owner of the Australian yacht, “Gretel”, Sir Frank Packer; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Patricia Ryan Mosbacher (behind Mrs. Kennedy); Catherine Schroeder Mercer; captain of “Gretel”, Alexander Stuart "Jock" Sturrock (behind Mrs. Mercer, face obscured); President Kennedy; captain of the American yacht, “Weatherly”, Emil “Bus” Mosbacher, Jr. (behind the President); and owner of the “Weatherly”, Henry D. Mercer. All others are unidentified.