Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-116-4-61
President John F. Kennedy and others watch television coverage of the lift-off of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard "Freedom 7," on the first US manned sub-orbital flight. L-R: Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Assistant Special Counsel to the President, Richard Goodwin; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Special Assistant to the President, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; President Kennedy. Standing in the doorway, partially hidden, are: President Kennedy’s brother-in law, Stephen Smith; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Chief of Staff of the United States Navy, Admiral Arleigh Burke. Office of the President’s Secretary (Evelyn Lincoln), White House, Washington, D.C.