Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-21265
Members of the Senate Ladies Red Cross Unit sit at a table during a luncheon (attended by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) in the Old Supreme Court Chamber, United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. The Red Cross unit (also known as “Ladies of the Senate”) is comprised of the wives of members of the US Senate. Clockwise around table: Dorothy Gruening (far left), wife of Senator Ernest Gruening (Alaska); Margaret Schwarzenbach Beall, wife of Senator James Beall (Maryland); unidentified; Ruth Siegel Ribicoff, wife of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff; Katherine Jordan, wife of Senator B. Everett Jordan (North Carolina); unidentified; Victoria Hruska, wife of Senator Roman L. Hruska (Nebraska); three unidentified women.