Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C206-70-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated in high-back chair at right) and other distinguished guests watch U.S. Pacific Fleet demonstrations from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), at sea off the coast of San Diego, California; a North American Vigilante bomber jet aircraft (with tail number 150823) sits on the deck in the background. Front row, left to right: Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth (pointing up towards the sky); Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), Admiral John H. Sides; President Kennedy; Governor of California, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown; Senator Clair Engle (California); Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul "Red" Fay; and Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup. Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (far left), sits in the second row, directly behind the President.