When Arthur Rickerby joined the staff of LIFE Magazine in 1961, he was immediately dispatched to Washington, D.C. to cover the Kennedy Administration. He was granted exclusive coverage of the Kennedy brothers first major domestic problem, the steel crisis. The pictures he made of the brothers conferring in the Oval Office are some of the best remembered of that era. He also covered, exclusively, the dinner given by the President and First Lady for American winners of the Nobel Prize.

   In addition to day to day depiction of the White House operation, Rickerby traveled on most of the First Family's trips in the United State and around the world — including Jackie Kennedy's story book tour of India.

   Arthur Rickerby was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1964 - riding in the official procession. His photographs of Dealey Plaza at the moment the shots rang out and of roses strewn in the back of a limousine at Parkland Hospital — are forever engraved on the American psyche.