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Topic: 'Gunsmoke' actor at Kennedy Space Center
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heng44
Member Posts: 3790
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-21-2010 01:58 PM
   
On January 3, 1969, actor Ken Curtis and his wife (on the left) visited Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo 9 rollout. Curtis played the part of Festus Hagen in the television series 'Gunsmoke'. Who can tell me who the couple on the right is? |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 02-21-2010 05:07 PM
Rory Calhoun? |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 236
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 02-21-2010 06:38 PM
I just sent an email to a Clark C. McClelland - who states on his website that he met Ken Curtis at KSC (among many others) so he might know who is in the photo. |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 236
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 02-21-2010 06:42 PM
Also - according to James Arness's Autobiography he and Ken Curtis visited KSC in the summer of 68 while preparations for Apollo 8 were underway. The man in the photo does kind of look like James Arness. |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 236
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 02-21-2010 06:48 PM
One final note - the red head does look like Amanda Blake! |
andrewcli
Member Posts: 328
From: La Jolla, CA, USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 02-21-2010 07:10 PM
Dr. Joe Gannon - Chad Everett, pre-Medical Center?
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spaceheaded
Member Posts: 171
From: MD
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 02-21-2010 08:30 PM
Best snuff out that smoke, Festus.  |
Steve Smith
Member Posts: 503
From: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 02-21-2010 08:53 PM
Having been a huge Gunsmoke fan (and living not far away from Dodge City and doing business there occasionally), I can tell you that that is not James Arness. He is much bigger. I'm about 50/50 as to whether it is Amanda Blake ("Miss Kitty"). The red hair certainly leans toward Amanda. Perhaps Amanda Blake and her husband? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3790
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-22-2010 03:17 AM
I thought about Amanda Blake too, but I have a Spaceport News article mentioning Curtis' visit. I can't imagine they would not mention Blake if she was there also.Who is Clark C. McClelland? |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 236
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 02-22-2010 04:46 AM
Ed, I found his website and he has a list of all the famous people he met at KSC over the years. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3790
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-22-2010 09:31 AM
I think I will also start a website listing all the people I have met. Must be possible to bore somebody to death.  |
albatron
Member Posts: 2804
From: Stuart, Florida
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 02-22-2010 03:22 PM
Wow, I never knew Joe Walker was the first human in space, climbing the X-15 to over 100 miles altitude. That's 528,000 feet. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3935
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 02-22-2010 03:37 PM
I didn't know, from his astronaut encounter write-ups, that Scott, Irwin and Worden "saw UFOs above the mooon, NASA grounded them." |
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