Close
Not finding the information you're looking for? Please contact the Archives research staff.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7400-F
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks prior to presenting the award to Virginia Lyon (accepting on behalf of her husband, Dr. Waldo K. Lyon, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory). Left to right: Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Mrs. Lyon; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), J. Stanley Baughman; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); President Kennedy; Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (in back); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas (in back, partially hidden); Assistant Attorney General, Ramsey Clark. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7400-E
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) presents the award to Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth. Looking on (L-R): Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (in back); Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back); astronauts Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver (in back, partially hidden); award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman; Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (partially hidden); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7400-D
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) and others listen as Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr. (far right), reads the citation for award recipient and Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (center left). Standing in background (L-R): Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; award recipient and Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams (very back, mostly hidden); award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (mostly hidden); astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (very back, partially hidden); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Associated Press (AP) photographer, Henry Burroughs; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman (partially hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (mostly hidden on far edge of frame). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7400-C
President John F. Kennedy stands with award recipients at the presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Left to right (in foreground): Career Ambassador, Llewellyn E. Thompson; Virginia Lyon (accepting the award on behalf of her husband, Dr. Waldo K. Lyon, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory); Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey; Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg; President Kennedy; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), J. Stanley Baughman. Standing in background (L-R): Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (mostly hidden); astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (partially hidden); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Administrator of the HHFA, Robert C. Weaver (partially hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (partially hidden); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.