Kennedy Sees Rocket Fired 1962

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Title reads: "Kennedy Sees Rocket Fired".

Vandenburg Airforce Base, United States of America (USA).

L/S President John F Kennedy's (JFK) car driving past aircraft and missiles. Tilt up a Titan Missile. M/S Atlas-D rocket about to be launched. The blast off starts and the rocket leaves...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53272
Sort Number:
62/027
Time in/Out:
01:49:02:00 / 01:50:08:00
Canister:
62/27
Film ID:
1715.24
Issue Date:
02/04/1962

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