President Gerald R. Ford & First Lady Betty Ford
David Hume Kennerly, Fords, Vice President and Second Lady, Relaxing at Mauna Kea Resort, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, 1973
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, Holding an Informal Press Conference, White House North Grounds, Washington, D.C., 1976
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, Swimming in Newly-Built White House Pool, Washington, D.C., 1975
David Hume Kennerly, Betty Ford, First Lady, Posing on Top of Cabinet Room Table, White House, Washington, D.C., 1977
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, and Staff, outside Okeansky Sanitarium, Vladivostok, Soviet Union, 1974
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan, President and Governor, Republican National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, 1976
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan, President and Governor, Moments After Ford won the Republican Party Nomination, Republican National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, 1976
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, Speaks with Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger to Order a Final Evacuation from Saigon, Washington, D.C., 1975
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. and Betty Ford, Former President and Former First Lady, at the Republican National Convention, Detroit, Michigan, 1980
David Hume Kennerly, Bob Hope, Comedian; Gerald R. Ford, President; And Betty Ford, First Lady, in Conversation during Betty Ford's Recovery from Breast Cancer Surgery, Presidential Suite, Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, 1974
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. and Betty Ford, President and First Lady, Celebrating Their Twenty-Sixth Wedding Anniversary, Washington, D.C., 1974.
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, Testifying Before House Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., 1974.
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan, United States President and Governor, Meet after Republican Fundraising Dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California, 1974
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President; Steve Todd, Military Aide; Terry O'Donnell, Special Assistant; and Donald Rumsfeld, Chief of Staff, Meeting in Akasaka Palace State Guest House, Tokyo, Japan, 1974.
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President; William Colby, CIA Director; Robert Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State; Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State; James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense; Bill Clements, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President; And General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, D.C., 1975
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President; William Colby, CIA Director; And Other Attendees at a Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, D.C., 1975
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, Consults with His Staff before an Address on the Energy Crisis, Washington, D.C., 1975
David Hume Kennerly, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and Gerald R. Ford, President, on the Occasion of a State Dinner in Honor of the Emperor and Empress Nagako, White House Blue Room, Washington, D.C., 1975
David Hume Kennerly, Betty Ford, First Lady, White House, Washington, D.C., 1976
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, New Hampshire, 1976
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President; Jimmy Carter, President-Elect; Howard Cannon, Senator; And Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the House, Share a Limousine Ride to Capitol Hill for Carter's Inauguration, Washington, D.C., 1977
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, Sitting at His Desk in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., 1974
David Hume Kennerly, George H. W. Bush and Gerald R. Ford, Ambassador to the United Nations and President, in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., 1974
David Hume Kennerly, Gerald R. Ford, President, and Family, Following the President's Concession of the 1976 Presidential Election, White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C., 1976
The formal designation of a Chief Official White House Photographer was not established until 1961, by President John F. Kennedy. The archive of a White House Photographer like David Hume Kennerly offers unique glimpses behind the scenes: the Fords in Hawaii, intense meetings in the Oval Office, press conferences on the White House lawn, and private conversations with American and world leaders.