Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C28968
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk at left) signs a photograph to commemorate his visit to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), at sea off the coast of San Diego, California. Left to right: unidentified (in back); President Kennedy; Naval Assistant to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (holding a wrapped gift box); Commanding Officer of the USS Kitty Hawk, Captain Horace Hardaway Epes, Jr.; Executive Officer of the USS Kitty Hawk, Captain William E. Donnelly, Jr.; unidentified (in back); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth.