Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7727-C
President John F. Kennedy presents the National Medal of Science to Dr. Theodore von Kármán in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Chairman of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science, Frederick Seitz; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; General Bernard Schriever; President Kennedy; Judge Victor L. Anfuso of the New York State Supreme Court; Dr. von Kármán; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; President of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge; unidentified; Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Dr. Harold Brown.