Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C307-40-63
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and their children visit with Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, on the West Wing Lawn of the White House. Emperor Selassie presented as gifts to the Kennedy family a leopard coat and gold filigree jewelry case for the First Lady and carved ivory figurines for Caroline Kennedy (mostly hidden) and John F. Kennedy, Jr. U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Edward M. Korry, stands at far right (partially hidden). Minister of the Imperial Court of Ethiopia, Tafarra-Worq Kidane-Wold, stands at far left; an unidentified girl (partially hidden) stands at center left. Washington, D.C.