Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23730
President John F. Kennedy tours the Mercury-Atlas Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Walking in foreground (L-R): Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center, Major General Leighton I. Davis; Commander of the 6555th Aerospace Test Wing, Colonel Paul R. Wignall; unidentified photographer; astronaut Commander Walter M. Schirra (partially hidden); President Kennedy; Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston; Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Launch Operations Center, Dr. Kurt H. Debus; White House Secret Service agents, Roy Kellerman and Frank Yeager. Site workers and military personnel stand in background. The President visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.