Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A39-6-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (both seated in center) watch the first race of the 1962 America's Cup from aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Also pictured: Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Senator Benjamin A. Smith II (Massachusetts); Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul "Red" Fay; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, James A. Reed; Nuala Pell (wife of Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island). Newport, Rhode Island.