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President John F. Kennedy tours the Titan Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Director of Range Safety Operations with the Eastern Test Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Colonel Dan F. Thompson (center left, back to camera), briefs President Kennedy; models of the Titan II and Titan III missiles sit in foreground. Also pictured: Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. 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 (center foreground, partially hidden) 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; Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun; White House Secret Service agents, 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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President John F. Kennedy (center left, wearing sunglasses) looks up at 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: Saturn Project Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Rocco Petrone; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; White House Secret Service agents, Joe Paolella and Jack Ready. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (mostly hidden, 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: 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Launch Operations Center, Dr. Kurt H. Debus; Representative Victor L. Anfuso (New York); Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn and Bill Duncan. Site workers observe in background. President Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with delegates from the State of Florida Inter-American Center Authority; President Kennedy viewed plans for a proposed Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center (also known as Interama) in Miami, Florida. Left to right: President of the First National Bank of Miami, Harry Hood Bassett; Vice President for Research at the University of Miami and Chairman of the Authority, Dr. Irving E. Muskat (holding an architectural drawing of Interama); attorney, Louis J. Hector; Secretary-Treasurer of the Authority, David W. Walters; President Kennedy (seated); President of the Miami Beach First National Bank, Frank Smathers, Jr. (in back, partially hidden); Senator Spessard L. Holland (Florida); Mayor of Miami and Vice Chairman of the Authority, Robert King High (seated); Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); two unidentified. Also listed in the President's schedule: assistant to Senator Smathers, Steve Moran; Joseph J. Orr, of Miami, Florida; former Miami city commissioner, B. E. Hearn; attorney, Milton E. Grusmark. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.