President Kennedy awards Cousteau the National Geographic gold medal, 1961
1961
John F. Kennedy presenting the National Geographic Society gold medal to Cousteau, then director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. A White House photograph, public domain as a US federal work.
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