Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C28954
President John F. Kennedy (center, back to camera) 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. Left to right: Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; unidentified (mostly obscured); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Senator Clair Engle (California); President Kennedy; Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), Admiral John H. Sides; Governor of California, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown; Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul "Red" Fay.