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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-12-C
ST13, KN22
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-12-B
ST13, KN22
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23632
President John F. Kennedy sits in the back seat of the presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental convertible), following a tour of the facilities at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Governor of Texas, Price Daniel (holding hat), sits right of President Kennedy. Seated in jump seat of car: Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, and Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (mostly hidden). Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Dave Grant. Photographers and spectators observe. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23630
President John F. Kennedy sits in the back seat of the presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental convertible), following a tour of the facilities at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Governor of Texas, Price Daniel (holding hat), sits right of President Kennedy. Seated in jump seat of car: Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, and Representative Albert Thomas (Texas). Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Dave Grant. Photographers and spectators observe. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. [Blemishes on image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23791
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks, following a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. President Kennedy holds a scale model of the Apollo command module, presented to him by Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; a mock-up of the lunar lander (also known as "the Bug") sits at left in background. Standing in back: Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Dr. Gilruth; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Photographers observe at right. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. [See also MO 63.1913, "Model of Apollo Command Module"]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-387-19-62
President John F. Kennedy (left) views a mock-up of an Apollo command module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Rufus Youngblood. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23792
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks, following a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. President Kennedy holds a scale model of the Apollo command module, presented to him by Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; a mock-up of the lunar lander (also known as "the Bug") sits at left in background. Standing in back: Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Dr. Gilruth; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Photographers, including newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr., and members of the press observe at right. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. [See also MO 63.1913, "Model of Apollo Command Module"]