Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-27431
President John F. Kennedy (center) lays a wreath at a memorial for Lieutenant Commander Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare during the dedication ceremony for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Standing in foreground (L-R): former chairman of the Chicago City Council's Aviation Committee, John E. Egan; Senator Paul Douglas (Illinois); Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner; Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley; President Kennedy; nephews of Butch O'Hare, Phillip Tovrea III (partially obscured, wearing a Culver Military Academy uniform) and Edward Palmer; and an unidentified member of the Chicago Police Department.