Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C307-18-63
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy greets Princess Hirut “Ruth” Desta (granddaughter of Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I) upon her arrival via train at Union Station in Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Kennedy presents Princess Desta with a bouquet of roses. U.S. Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk, stands at far left; Robin Chandler Duke (wife of U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke) stands behind the Princess. Minister of the Imperial Court of Ethiopia, Tafarra-Worq Kidane-Wold, and an unidentified Ethiopian military official walk down steps of train.