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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-03-23-D
KN14
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20683
President John F. Kennedy (wearing sunglasses) watches Atlas 134D missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Left to right: Unidentified man; White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley; President Kennedy; Director of Research and Development for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Commander of Strategic Air Command, General Thomas S. Power; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh. An unidentified photographer stands in foreground.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20681
President John F. Kennedy views a silo-lift launcher and Minuteman missile in its underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Also pictured: Commander of Strategic Air Command, General Thomas S. Power; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Brigadier General Seth J. McKee; White House Secret Service agents Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn and Bob Lilley; Director of Research and Development for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20678
President John F. Kennedy (center) meets members of Warren Air Force Base’s 389th Strategic Missile Wing, following the launch of the Atlas 134D missile. Crew members (L-R): Major Clifford W. Simonson, Kenneth Haithcoat, SMSgt Chupka, Roger Egert, Sherman Jackson, Gerald Beth, MSgt Reginald Bufkin, TSgt Arnold Kovakka, SSgt Dale Howe, A1C J. W. Hill, and Frank Waters. Commander of Strategic Air Command, General Thomas S. Power, stands next to President Kennedy. At right: Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Director of Research and Development for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley; Major General Joseph J. Preston. Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.