Operators at work in NASA Project Mercury tracking facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. An FPS-16 operator at control console.Other equipment seen include time signal receiver and time standard equipment. Several technicians are seen, some performing diagnostic testing of equipment.. (Note: The FPS-16 units originally planned for the Project Mercury tracking network did not have adequate displays and controls to reliably acquire the spacecraft during orbit. So NASA had them modified to double their range and also incorporated data-handling equipment to facilitate transmissions from all sites to the Mercury Project computers.)
A man works on teletype in tracking station for project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. Words being typed on a paper.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy arrives at White House with his wife Jacueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy. He is met by outgoing president Eisenhower at White House. After a brief talk John F Kennedy leaves the White House for the trip to Capitol Hill with outgoing president Eisenhower. They arrive at Capitol Building and make their way to the East Portico inaugural stand. Marian Anderson sings the National Anthem.
Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the oath of office as Vice President. The American poet Robert Frost reads out poem named 'The Gift Outright' as his presidential inaugural poem. After that John F Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected President of United States. The oath is administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren. John Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President.
President John Fitzerald Kennedy begins his inaugural speech and calls it a celebration of freedom and not a victory of a party. He talks about how under his leadership, America would be willing to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." The speech continues.
In this first speech John F Kennedy makes it clear to the American public as their President he supports Eisenhower's policy of supporting South Vietnamese government. He argued that if South Vietnam became a communist state , the whole of the non communist world would be at risk. If communism was not halted in Vietnam it would gradually spread throughout the world.
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