LYMAN L. LEMNITZER

35. KENNEDY
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FULL NAME:
Lyman Louis Lemnitzer

BORN:
August 29, 1899, 
Honesdale, Pennsylvania

DIED:
November 12, 1988 (age 89),
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
U.S. Military Academy 

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1960-1962:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

PORTRAIT:

DOD Photo

RESOURCES: 

4/11/1961:  President John F. Kennedy meets with Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces Lord Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma (center) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer (right) in the Oval Office, White House (Robert Knudsen JFK Presidential Library and Museum)

Joint Chiefs of Staff

MEDIA COVERAGE:

7/25/1962:  President John F. Kennedy meets with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer (left), and General Maxwell Taylor (right) in the Oval Office of the White House. (Cecil Stoughton/ JFK Presidential Library and Museum)

OBITUARIES (11/13/1988):
New York Times
Washington Post