Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-13-1-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with civilian and military leaders of the 2506th Cuban Invasion Brigade at the residence of C. Michael Paul in Palm Beach, Florida. Standing outdoors on the patio of the residence (left to right): Alvaro Sanchez, Jr., chairman of the Cuban Families Committee for Liberation of Prisoners of War, Inc.; Roberto Pérez San Román, chief of the heavy weapons battalion; Jose Pérez San Román, commander of the brigade; President Kennedy; Manuel Artime, civilian chief of the brigade; Erneido Oliva, second in command of the brigade; Enrique Ruiz-Williams, second in command of the heavy weapons battalion. The 2506 Brigade was comprised of Cuban exiles who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961.