Yes, there were tragic and painful events during this period of great progress, and these are also described in Bob’s report. Certainly, the assassination of President Kennedy on 22 November 1963, only six days after he had visited the launch facilities and walked around the Saturn I launch vehicle, was devastat- ing to the entire United States, including all of us who had been involved in fulfilling his commitment to spaceflight goals. Bob Seamans’s discussion of that terrible event and of his meeting and correspondence with Jacqueline Kennedy shortly after the funeral service depicts one of the warmest, most emotional situa- tions imaginable. That period will.
