Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
J.B. West, Lyndon Johnson, and Jacqueline Kennedy
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- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
J.B. West, Lyndon Johnson, and Jacqueline Kennedy
J.B. West, chief usher from 1957 to 1968, poses in the West Sitting Hall with Jacqueline Kennedy and John Kennedy Jr. prior to their departure from the White House following the assassination of President Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy signed the photograph for West at Christmas 1963.
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