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.