Category: History

Early 1968 thru January 1973.  From the Tet Offensive and President Johnson announcing he wouldn’t run again in early 1968 until January 1973, when American delegates signed an agreement around a really big table in Paris to stop fighting in Vietnam.  

Eventually in 1975, all of Vietnam would fall to the Communists. 

July 1969 through December1972.   Americans walking on the moon.

“From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon.  It’s not a miracle.  We just decided to go.”  –spoken by Apollo 13’s command astronaut in a 1995 film scored by James Horner that would win a prestigious film industry award for its director.  A film based on the true story of Apollo 13, a flight intended to land on the moon…but didn’t.

That’s because about 200,000 miles away from the face of the earth, there was a problem.

RECORDED QUOTES FROM JULY OF 1969 ABOUT APOLLO 11’s MOON LANDING

• “The greatest human achievement ever.”
• “Nothing in show business will ever top what I saw on television today.”

FROM THE BOOK “LOST MOON”

“…when stations around the globe carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first tentative moonwalk and most of the world stood still to watch it.  But by the time Apollo 13 rolled around, the world had lost interest.  A little after the two-day mark in the mission, the crew was scheduled for its first TV show, but none of the networks intended to carry it.  …Viewers across the nation had shown little interest…”