Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A16-49-62
President John F. Kennedy (right, back to camera) receives military honors upon arrival at Redstone Army Airfield, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Commanding General of the U.S. Army Missile Command, Major General Francis J. McMorrow (saluting), stands left of President Kennedy. Standing at far right in foreground: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin (partially out of frame). Military personnel stand at attention in background; photographers observe at right. The President traveled to Huntsville as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.