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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-12-C
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JFKWHP-1962-09-12-B
ST13, KN22
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-11-D
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JFKWHP-KN-C23689
President John F. Kennedy tours spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; a mock-up of a Gemini paraglider is visible in the background. Left to right: White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (back to camera); Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back); President Kennedy; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (partially hidden); astronaut Major Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back); Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; (in back, mostly hidden); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Representative George P. Miller of California (in back, partially hidden); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (very back, mostly hidden); Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; Governor of Texas, Price Daniel; unidentified. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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JFKWHP-KN-C23666
President John F. Kennedy views a mock-up of an Apollo command module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Also pictured (standing at bottom of stairs): Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes. President Kennedy visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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JFKWHP-KN-C23704
President John F. Kennedy (center, mostly hidden in crowd) and others view a Saturn rocket launch site under construction at Launch Complex 37, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also pictured: Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; Saturn Project Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Rocco Petrone; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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JFKWHP-KN-C23703
President John F. Kennedy (center, partially hidden in crowd) and others view a Saturn rocket launch site under construction at Launch Complex 37, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also pictured: Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); White House Secret Service agent, Emory Roberts. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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JFKWHP-KN-C23702
President John F. Kennedy (hidden in crowd) and others view a Saturn rocket launch site under construction at Launch Complex 37, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also pictured: Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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JFKWHP-KN-C23697
President John F. Kennedy (center right, in foreground) tours the Titan Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida; a Titan II Air Force rocket sits on launch pad in background. Also pictured: Director of Range Safety Operations with the Eastern Test Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Colonel Dan F. Thompson; Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston; Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Bill Greer, Rufus Youngblood, Ron Pontius, Bill Duncan, and Toby Chandler. Site workers observe in background. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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JFKWHP-KN-C23692
President John F. Kennedy (right) walks toward the presidential limousine outside the blockhouse at Launch Complex 34, following a briefing of the manned lunar landing program during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Launch Operations Center, Dr. Kurt H. Debus; Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center, Major General Leighton I. Davis; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Minister of Defence of Great Britain, Peter Thorneycroft; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Administrator of NASA, Dr. James E. Webb; White House Secret Service agents, Bill Greer, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, Roy Kellerman, Dave Grant, Toby Chandler, Ron Pontius, Bill Duncan, and Dick Johnsen. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. [Blemish in upper right portion of image is original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-A16-44-62
President John F. Kennedy (lower left, with back to camera) views the Saturn C-1 rocket, during a tour of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Director of the MSFC, Dr. Wernher von Braun (back to camera), briefs President Kennedy. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Dr. Leonard Carmichael; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, Roy Kellerman, Toby Chandler, and Dave Grant. Photographers and members of the press stand at right in foreground. The President visited the MSFC as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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JFKWHP-ST-A16-41-62
President John F. Kennedy tours the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Director of the MSFC, Dr. Wernher von Braun, walks left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Minister of Defence of Great Britain, Peter Thorneycroft; Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Dr. Leonard Carmichael; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Special Assistant to the President, Dave Powers; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn and Roy Kellerman. Photographers and members of the press observe at right. The President visited the MSFC as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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JFKWHP-ST-C168-23-63
Astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper speaks with a group of children, following his National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) presentation ceremony. Left to right: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Trudy Cooper, wife of Major Cooper; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Camala Cooper, Jewell D. Truscott, and James J. Truscott, Major Cooper’s daughter, aunt, and uncle (respectively); Major Cooper; Representative James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania (in background); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Caroline Kennedy (partially hidden); President John F. Kennedy. The State Dining Room is visible through the open door. Cross Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-C42-3-62
President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri; President Kennedy (left, facing away) rides in a motorized cart with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell (driving). Following in second cart: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (driving). Also pictured: Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius, Dave Grant, and Win Lawson. McDonnell plant employees line the tour route. President Kennedy visited the plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-C378-5-62
President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri; President Kennedy (center) rides in a motorized cart with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell (driving). Following in second cart: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (driving). Also pictured: Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius, Dave Grant, Win Lawson, Jack Ready, and Charlie Kunkel. McDonnell plant employees line the tour route. President Kennedy visited the plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-C378-3-62
President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri; President Kennedy (center left) rides in a motorized cart with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell (driving). Following in second cart: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (driving). Also pictured: Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Dave Grant. McDonnell plant employees line the tour route. President Kennedy visited the plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy presents the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. L-R: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Commander Shepard; Louise Brewer Shepard; President Kennedy; astronaut Major Donald K. “Deke” Slayton (head turned); Deputy Administrator of NASA, Hugh L. Dryden; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard (in back); astronaut Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter (far right). Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-C378-4-62
Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (partially hidden), and Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, ride in the back of a motorized cart during President John F. Kennedy's tour of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Seated in front seat: White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (driving). McDonnell plant employees line the tour route. President Kennedy visited the plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-KN-23787
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson views a mock-up of an Apollo command module, during President John F. Kennedy's tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb, stands on stairs with the Vice President. Also pictured: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin). President Kennedy visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (center left, mostly hidden in crowd) and others view a Saturn rocket launch site under construction at Launch Complex 37, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also pictured: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Emory Roberts. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (hidden in crowd) and others view a Saturn rocket launch site under construction at Launch Complex 37, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also pictured: Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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JFKWHP-ST-C168-14-63
President John F. Kennedy (center) greets astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper and his family on the walkway outside the Oval Office upon their arrival at the White House for Major Cooper’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) presentation ceremony. Standing behind Major Cooper are his wife, Trudy, and his daughters, Camala and Janita. Hattie Cooper, mother of Major Cooper, stands next to President Kennedy (back to camera). Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands in front of open door of presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental convertible); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard, and Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, stand at right in foreground (backs to camera). Jewell D. Truscott and James J. Truscott, Major Cooper’s aunt and uncle, walk in front of Captain Shepard and General Clifton. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Sam Kinney and Roy Kellerman; United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton. South Lawn driveway, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-C168-10-63
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (back to camera), presents NASA award for outstanding leadership to manager of the Mercury Project Office at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Kenneth S. Kleinknecht (standing right of President John F. Kennedy, wearing glasses), during astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper’s NASA Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) presentation ceremony. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Jean Kennedy Smith; Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Lady Bird Johnson; Major Cooper and his wife, Trudy Cooper; Hattie Cooper, mother of Major Cooper; Jewell D. Truscott and James J. Truscott, aunt and uncle of Major Cooper; Louise Brewer Shepard, wife of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard; astronaut Major Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and his wife, Betty Grissom; astronaut Major Donald K. “Deke” Slayton; Rene Carpenter, wife of astronaut, Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter; Jo Schirra, wife of astronaut Commander Walter M. Schirra; Director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert R. Gilruth; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; President of the Case Institute of Technology and former Administrator of NASA, Dr. T. Keith Glennan; Director of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Dr. Floyd L. Thompson (also a recipient of NASA award for outstanding leadership); Representative James G. Fulton (Pennsylvania); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Senator Margaret Chase Smith (Maine); Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Massachusetts); Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); Representative Oren Harris (Arkansas); Representative Joseph E. Karth (Minnesota); Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona); Senator A. Willis Robertson (Virginia); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Anthony Celebrezze; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn and Win Lawson. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-C400-6-63
President John F. Kennedy (wearing sunglasses) is briefed by Dr. Wernher Von Braun regarding the Saturn rocket at Pad B, Complex 37, Cape Canaveral, Florida. (L-R) Associate Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Senator George Smathers of Florida; unidentified (mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Administrator of NASA James E. Webb; Dr. Von Braun (partially hidden); Deputy Administrator of NASA Dr. Hugh L. Dryden; Military Aide to the President Chester V. Clifton.
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JFKWHP-AR6569-C
Attendees gather at the South Portico of the White House in preparation for the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. L-R: Air Force Aide to the President, General Godfrey T. McHugh; several unidentified Naval officers; Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard; President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; unidentified; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; unidentified reporters and guests stand at right. Caroline Kennedy and unidentified woman stand on upper balcony (Truman Porch). Washington, D.C.