This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/17/2022
[KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald (1917–1963)]. – [LINCOLN, Evelyn (1909–1995)]. Guest badge issued to Evelyn Lincoln during JFK’s official visit to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Laminated guest badge on yellow paper granting visitor access to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM during President Kennedy’s one and only official visit on 7 December 1962. With clip, 4 ½ x 2 ½”. During this visit President Kennedy was briefed on the progress of Project Rover, which JFK had championed in a speech to Congress the previous year as being essential to the United States mastering space travel. This visit marked the very first that a U.S. president had ever made to a nuclear weapons laboratory. These badges were issued to members of the president’s entourage, including Evelyn Lincoln. Previously sold by Guernsey’s Auction House on 15-17 December 2005 as part of the Robert L. White Collection.