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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-11-C
ST13, KN22
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A16-43-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) greets officials upon arrival at Redstone Army Airfield, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Left to right: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; unidentified military officer (in back); Commanding General of the U.S. Army Missile Command, Major General Francis J. McMorrow; Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun (partially hidden); President Kennedy; Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (in back); Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, Lieutenant General Frank S. Besson, Jr. (mostly out of frame). Air Force One sits in background. The President traveled to Huntsville as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.