Presidential Patch Given To Clark McClelland by John F. KENNEDY on 17 Nov. 1963
On November 17, 1963, this Presidential Emblem Patch was given to Clark C. McClelland, ScO at Cape Canaveral, Florida during the final visit that President John F. KENNEDY made to the USA NASA/USAF/US Navy launch sites.
He was visiting the Atlas launch pad 12 with NASA astronaut, Wally Schirra, one of the original seven Right Stuff Astronauts that flew the Mercury Capsules. President KENNEDY handed this patch to Clark with a closed, clasped fist, to hide it from his Secret Service agents that may have required that Clark return it to them. Clark instantly placed it into his white coveralls to hide it. Six days later, Clark was in the NASA Project Gemini Engineering building at building 1605 when the horrible news was announced that President John F. KENNEDY was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 23, 1963.
