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Originally Posted by wa2ise
They were watching the first Mercury manned mission. 
I would have thought that they'd have regular console TVs in the White House back then. Looks like a staffer brought in their personal portable to watch the space mission. |
As I understand it the oval office had a CTC-9 or CTC-10 from Eisenhower to LBJ (who replaced it with that custom tri-screen console).
I've got a CTC-9 in the same cabinet as the oval office set.