Unnamed Navy veteran oral history recording on the landing of the Apollo 8 Astronauts and the USS Yorktown
Media
Title
Unnamed Navy veteran oral history recording on the landing of the Apollo 8 Astronauts and the USS Yorktown
Description
A video recording of an oral history of an unnamed Navy veteran who served as a photographer on the USS Yorktown when the Apollo 8 astronauts returned from orbiting the moon in 1968. The recording begins mid-interview and is missing the first section. Topics include: celebrating holidays in the navy; preparing for the return of the astronauts' capsule; watching the astronauts come on board the Yorktown; attending while the astronauts went to sick bay; taking souvenirs and donating them to the Yorktown museum; escorting the astronauts to Hawaii; about taking photographs; leaving the navy; his career after the navy as a radio news reporter, an attorney and a photographer. The interview is undated, but based on similar oral histories in the collection, it was probably recorded around 2007.
Is Part Of
Veteran's History Project
Subject
Veterans
Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
Place
Washington County (Or.)
Tualatin (Or.)
Extent
1 video file (32 min.)
Language
English
Identifier
THS_OH_86
Rights
In Copyright
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Source
Tualatin Valley Historical Society
Type
Moving Image