Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20726
President John F. Kennedy visits Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Major Clifford W. Simonson of the 389th Strategic Missile Wing (Warren Air Force Base) stands at left; Major Simonson presented the President with a silver badge marking the launch of the Atlas 134D missile earlier in the day. [See also MO 63.1523, “Atlas Missile Badge”]
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