President John F. Kennedy stoops to retrieve the Nation?

President John F. Kennedy stoops to retrieve the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal which he dropped while presenting the award to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left, in a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington DC on 8 May 1961. Looking on are, from left, Mrs Louise Shepard, Dr Hugh Dryden, and astronauts Walter Schirra, John Glenn and Leroy Cooper

Astronauts Dropped Dryden Leroy Presenting Retrieve Schirra Shepard Stoops

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