Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21277
President John F. Kennedy laughs with President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Luther Skaggs, Jr., during a program at the White House to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Congressional Medal of Honor; visitors include descendants of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. Left to right: President Kennedy; Chairman of the District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Commission, Paul J. Sedgwick (in back); Mr. Skaggs, Jr.; unidentified; Marshall B. Wenger (great-great-grandson of two of the first recipients of the Medal, Jacob Parrott and Wilson W. Brown); White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas (in back, partially hidden); and an unidentified reporter. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.