Image: Pres. Kennedy Awards the National Geographic Society's Gold Medal to Jacques Cousteau

Description: President John F. Kennedy presents the National Geographic Society’s Gold Medal to Captain Jacques Cousteau, Director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (center) on the steps of the West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C. President and editor of National Geographic Melville Bell Grosvenor (right of Cousteau) looks on. Among those standing on the steps are French Ambassador to the United States Hervé Alphand and his wife Nicole Merenda Alphand; Cousteau’s wife Simone Melchior Cousteau. Persons: Alphand, Hervé, 1907-1994 Alphand, Nicole Merenda, 1917-1979 Cousteau, Jacques Yves, 1910-1997 Cousteau, Simone Melchior, 1919-1990 Grosvenor, Melville Bell, 1901-1982 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 accession number: AR6526-A digital identifier: JFKWHP-AR6526-A
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