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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-05-B
KN 36
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-341-008
This file contains copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 248 (NSAM 248) titled, “Dispersal Plan for NORAD [North American Air Defense Command] Air Defense Squadrons,” to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29078
President John F. Kennedy (center, back to camera) greets military personnel and others gathered during his visit to the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn (wearing sunglasses), stands right of President Kennedy.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29086
President John F. Kennedy (center) shakes hands with Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Air Marshal Clarence R. Dunlap, during his visit to the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Commander of NORAD, General John K. Gerhart, stands right of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Deputy Commander of NORAD, Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon (RCAF); Vice Commander of the Air Defense Command, General Robert Merrill Lee; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, and Dave Powers; and White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn.