Kennedy views "The Capture of the Mellish and The Engagement of the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard"

"The Capture of the Mellish" hangs on the left, "The Engagement of the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard" on the right. Left to right in the photograph are also an unidentified photographer, Gladys Irene Roosevelt, Representative James Roosevelt, Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff, Bernard L. Boutin, Rear Admiral Samuel Morison, and an unidentified man. (JFK Library, National Archives)