Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23774
President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Left to right (in foreground, backs to camera): Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell; President Kennedy; unidentified. A U.S. Navy jet fighter plane sits at left in the background. The President visited the McDonnell plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.