Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-139-12-62
President John F. Kennedy visits with Robert Bright, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), and Chief of White House Communications Agency (WHCA), Colonel George J. McNally (back to camera), during the opening ceremony for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (also known as the Century 21 Exposition) from the residence of C. Michael Paul in Palm Beach, Florida. President Kennedy delivered remarks by telephone and pressed a gold telegraph key to open the fair via satellite signal from Palm Beach.