Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C27232
President John F. Kennedy greets boy scouts from the “Guías y Scouts de Costa Rica” (Guides and Scouts of Costa Rica) at the United States Embassy residence in San Rafael de Escazú, Costa Rica. Left to right: unidentified man (on edge of frame); White House Secret Service agent, Paul A. Burns; unidentified; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (in back, mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard (in back, mostly hidden); Representative Armistead I. Selden, Jr. of Alabama (face obscured); US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (in back); US Ambassador to Costa Rica, Raymond Telles; Representative William S. Mailliard of California (in back, face obscured); others unidentified. Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Dave Powers, stand in background (in front of column).