Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C307-10-63
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy walks with Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, and others in the West Wing Colonnade. Mrs. Kennedy speaks with her son, John F. Kennedy, Jr.; Emperor Selassie walks behind with Caroline Kennedy. Also pictured: Minister of the Imperial Court of Ethiopia, Tafarra-Worq Kidane-Wold (behind and left of the First Lady); U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (mostly hidden behind the Emperor); U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; unidentified Ethiopian officials. 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 and John. White House, Washington, D.C.