Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23590
President John F. Kennedy (center, facing away from camera) stands on the steps outside Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island, with crew members of the yachts competing in the 1962 America's Cup race, during a reception in their honor. Standing in foreground (L-R): Patricia Ryan Mosbacher; owner of the Australian yacht, “Gretel”, Sir Frank Packer; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Catherine Schroeder Mercer; captain of “Gretel”, Alexander Stuart "Jock" Sturrock (behind Mrs. Mercer); President Kennedy; captain of the American yacht, “Weatherly”, Emil "Bus" Mosbacher, Jr. (on step behind the President); and owner of “Weatherly”, Henry D. Mercer. All others are unidentified.