Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C206-3-63
President John F. Kennedy (wearing sunglasses) visits the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, to view missile demonstrations. Also pictured: Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts, Dennis Halterman, and Toby Chandler; Assistant Press Secretary, Malcolm Kilduff. In the foreground is a missile fired in 1938 by Dr. Robert H. Goddard near Roswell, New Mexico.
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