Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: President John F. Kennedy arrived at Hanford to start the groundbreaking for the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) energy generating project on September 26, 1963. Photos by Bill Lilley of the Union-Bulletin. Timeline details supplied by Dana Bronson.

Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan

BYGONE WALLA WALLA PROJECT BY JOE DRAZAN is a local non-profit, non-commercial effort to build and share a visual history of Walla Walla. Use SEARCH box or the INDEX, or just scroll. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE; right click & open in new tab for even LARGER view. WANTED! Your old snapshots, slides, or negatives of Walla Walla area places and events to share in this project, please contact me to get them scanned in; about 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024

Thursday, January 4, 2018

President John F. Kennedy arrived at Hanford to start the groundbreaking for the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) energy generating project on September 26, 1963. Photos by Bill Lilley of the Union-Bulletin. Timeline details supplied by Dana Bronson.

View from the front window of the press bus.

View out the back window of the press bus.

Marine 1 helicopter arriving in distance

Marine 1 helicopter arrives from Larson Air Force Base near Moses Lake.

Landing at Hanford 3:10pm

Kennedy exits the helicopter.

Crowd size estimated at 40,000

Governor Albert Rosellini sits at Kennedy's left side

Senator Warren Magnuson speaks

Senator Henry M. Jackson speaks

Kennedy's address, 3:26pm - 3:40pm

Marine 1 helicopter heads back to Larson AFB at 3:55pm.

Penitentiary Warden Bob Rhay posed with Pierre Salinger, JFK's press secretary