Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C75-8-62
President John F. Kennedy receives the flag of the 2506th Cuban Invasion Brigade from brigade members during a presentation ceremony at the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami, Florida. Standing on speakers' platform (left to right): Erneido Oliva, second in command of the brigade; Mayor of Miami, Robert King High; Jose Pérez San Román, commander of the brigade; Manuel Artime, civilian chief of the brigade; President Kennedy (at lectern, holding flag); U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes (mostly hidden in back, holding up flag); First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (partially hidden behind flag); former Prime Minister of Cuba and chairman of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, Dr. José Miró Cardona (partially hidden behind flag); Reverend Ismael Lugo, brigade chaplain. The Brigade was comprised of Cuban exiles who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961.