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Watching lift-off from the White House
President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watch the lift-off of the first American in space, Astronaut Alan Shepard.  The television is in the Office of the President’s Secretary in White House. 5/5/61
-from the JFK Library
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Watching lift-off from the White House

President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watch the lift-off of the first American in space, Astronaut Alan Shepard.  The television is in the Office of the President’s Secretary in White House. 5/5/61

-from the JFK Library

Source: jfklibrary.org

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