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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-06-E
ST25, KN36
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C206-65-63
President John F. Kennedy (center) 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. Seated in first row (left to right): Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul "Red" Fay; Senator Clair Engle (California); Governor of California, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown; President Kennedy; Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), Admiral John H. Sides (mostly obscured); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth (mostly obscured); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. Commanding Officer of the USS Kitty Hawk, Captain Horace Hardaway Epes, Jr., and Commander of the First Fleet, Vice Admiral Robert T. S. Keith (holding binoculars), stand near center right.