By the age of 18, Jamie Wyeth's paintings were part of the permanent collections of the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Maine and the Wilmington Society of Art in Wilmington, Delaware, as well as several private collections. Wyeth, who was a sensitive observer of his rural surroundings began painting livestock and other animals with the same manner and intensity that he devoted to portraits of people. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he received commissions to paint portraits of the Governor Charles L. Terry of Delaware and a posthumous portrait of President John F. Kennedy. Toward the end of 1960s, Wyeth took part in Eyewitness to Space, a program designed to record United States space probes which was jointly sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. As a participating artist, he covered launches and splashdowns. Another historic event that provided subjects for Wyeth's drawings was the Watergate scandal. In 1974, he sketched scenes in the Senate and Supreme Court related to all of the Watergate developments, including the contentious courtroom action during the trial of John Ehrlichman and the other defendants.