McGlathery, shown second from left at the rear, was the first African American student to gain admission to UAH. In the caption, the AP notes that "he enrolled at the previously white institution today without incident."
Shown in the photograph, left to right: President John F. Kennedy, Robert C. Seamans, Wernher von Braun, James E. Webb, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert S. McNamara, Jerome D. Wiesner, and Harold Brown.
