Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24179
President John F. Kennedy (seated at far left) watches the fourth race of the 1962 America's Cup from aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Also pictured: Harold S. Vanderbilt; Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt; Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Kennedy family friend, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Steve Smith; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Jean Kennedy Smith; artist William Walton (mostly hidden); writer George Plimpton.