Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-387-6-62
President John F. Kennedy sits on the speakers' platform at Rice University Stadium, Houston, Texas. Left to right (seated on platform): Chancellor of Rice University, Dr. Carey Croneis; unidentified; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); unidentified; Mayor of Houston, Lewis Cutrer; President of Rice University, Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer; President Kennedy; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Harris County Judge, Bill Elliott; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; two unidentified. White House Secret Service agent, Dick Johnsen, stands at right; spectators observe from the stands.