Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C422-63-63
Officials and dignitaries stand outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, following the requiem mass in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Those pictured include: Queen Frederika of Greece; President of Germany, Heinrich Lübke; Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie; President of the Philippines, Diosdado Macapagal; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Maurice Couve de Murville; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of France, General Charles Ailleret; Chancellor of West Germany, Ludwig Erhard; President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera; Prince Bertil of Sweden; Prince Jean of Luxembourg; Vice President of Spain, Agustín Muñoz Grandes; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, Eugène Schaus; Prince Harald of Norway; Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, Einar Gerhardsen; President of the State of Israel, Zalman Shazar; First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Anastas Mikoyan; Federal Councillor of Switzerland, Friedrich T. Wahlen; President of the Corporate Chamber of Portugal, Clotário Luís Supico Pinto; Chancellor of Austria, Alfons Gorbach; Prime Minister of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; United States Ambassador to Ireland, Matthew H. McCloskey; Archbishop of Myra, the Most Reverend Egidio Vagnozzi; Ambassador from Saudi Arabia to France, Rashad Pharaon; Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Charles A. Halleck (Indiana); U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department Protocol officer (New York City), Jay Rutherfurd. Washington, D.C. [White streaks on image are original to the negative.]