President Kennedy Throws the First Pitch at a Senators Game

In this photograph, taken by Robert L. Knudsen on April 10, 1961, President John F. Kennedy throws the first pitch of the season at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. This was the first game for an expansion team called the Washington Senators; the former baseball team named the Washington Senators had relocated to Minnesota, becoming the Minnesota Twins. The expansion team later moved to Texas and became the Texas Rangers. Those looking on in this photograph include Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota; Special Assistant to the President David F. Powers; majority owner of the Washington Senators General Elwood R. Quesada; Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff; Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher; and Secret Service Agents Gerald "Jerry" Behn and John J. Muggsy OLeary.