Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C269-51-62
President John F. Kennedy greets members of the official party of the President of Panama, Roberto F. Chiari, upon their arrival at the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal. Left to right: owner of Radio Programas Continentales (Continental Radio Programs), Fernando Eleta; Protocol officer for the State Department, Richard J. Gookin; Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; member of the National Economic Council of Panama, Rubén Darío Carles; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (partially hidden); President Kennedy; unidentified; Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk (facing away); Chief of Protocol of Panama, Camilo Levy Salcedo; and Aide-de-Camp to President Chiari, Lieutenant Federico Boyd (on airplane stairs). All others are unidentified. Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]