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Topic: Kennedy family comments on Apollo 11?
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mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 12-28-2007 09:11 AM
   
I believe I'm correct that President Johnson was at the launch of Apollo 11. I'm sure that someone must have interviewed him there and asked him about this being a fulfillment of JFK's goal... does anyone have access to such an interview? And did any of the Kennedy's ever release any comments? I know Ted was unavailable for comment at the time... but Bobby maybe?Noah |
1202 Alarm
Member Posts: 445
From: Switzerland & France
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 12-28-2007 09:14 AM
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) - quite hard for him to comment on Apollo 11. |
mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 12-28-2007 10:29 AM
My mistake on that one... what was I thinking. Noah |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2983
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-28-2007 10:38 AM
Noah--Briefly, yes, former President Johnson along with the current Vice President in 1969, Spiro Agnew, attended the launch of AS-506 as Nixon could not be there. But I don't recall any interviews with Johnson nor any other Kennedy family members regarding the Apollo 11 launch and/or mission in the summer of 1969. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3165
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-28-2007 12:40 PM
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Originally posted by Noah:
And did any of the Kennedy's ever release any comments? I know Ted was unavailable for comment at the time...
If that is a reference to the Chappaquiddick incident, that took place on the night of 18th July. So while the Kennedy family were probably hunkered down from the media from that point onwards, it's quite possible that Ted Kennedy / others would have made media comments about Apollo 11 before that, including the day of launch two days before the Chappaquiddick events.I found this William Safire article interesting on the same general theme. |
Jay
Member Posts: 82
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 12-28-2007 03:12 PM
Regarding President Johnson at KSC for Apollo 11... I dug out my Apollo 11 CBS launch videotapes and found that LBJ was indeed interviewed by Walter Cronkite on the CBS set roughly an hour after the launch. Johnson expressed his awe in being able to experience the "blastoff" in person as opposed to watching it on TV in the White House. There was also much made of the can do attitude of NASA at the time and how nice it would be to apply it to peace efforts around the world. It is about a 6-7 minute interview. These are just some highlights.J.L. |
Gordon Reade
Member Posts: 334
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 12-28-2007 08:30 PM
That was a very interesting article by William Safire. However he wrote, "we made sure that a Bible with both Testaments was included in the spacecraft's cargo."I think that Bible might have been left behind. |
Gordon Reade
Member Posts: 334
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 12-28-2007 09:34 PM
Perhaps it’s best that the Kennedy family didn’t make a statement for Apollo 11. JFK said everything that needed to be said eight years earlier. |
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