who is with JFK?

[freddy78]

Found this photograph inside a Time magazine and have no clue who the officer is with JFK and are these worth anything? Thanks for any info

 

[leadnugget]

Gen. Paul Adams, i think.
JFKCountercoup2: JFK at Strike Command Nov. 18, 1963

 

[2ndisbest]

I am not sure either but it might be Curtis LeMay. Curtis LeMay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I found some images on yahoo of Lemay and JFK, I am bad with faces but it is a possibility.

 

[Mackaydon]

"President Kennedy visits Vandenberg AFB [Air Force Base], Calif. At his left is Gen. Thomas S. Power, Commander of the Strategic Air Command. At left is Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and in right background is Lt. Gen. Howell M. Estes." As SAC commander-in-chief, Power implemented instructions from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to put his forces on "maximum readiness." Estes was deputy commander for aerospace systems, Air Force Systems Command (AFSC), in Los Angeles, California . Behind McNamara is Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown.

Source: National Archives, Still Pictures Branch,

 

[Mackaydon]

Above pic (sorry so large) is Kennedy with Gen. Thomas S. Power, Commander of SAC as they visited Vandenberg AFB.
Don.....

 

[calisdad]

Above pic (sorry so large) is Kennedy with Gen. Thomas S. Power, Commander of SAC as they visited Vandenberg AFB.
Don.....

I recognize Robert McNamara, Kennedy's Secretary of Defense on his far right in your pic Don.

 

[Mackaydon]

Calisada, right you are; and in the pic I posted behind Gen. Power is Lt. General Howell, M. Estes; and behind McNamara is Sec. of the AF, Harold Brown.
At the time of these pics, Power was SAC's C-i-C.
Don.....