Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

Tag: grief

June 6, 1968

June Again

Robert Kennedy was shot two nights ago and died yesterday morning. I can't stop thinking about the phone call to Jackie Kennedy they must have made.
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April 5, 1968

April

Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis yesterday. I don't have words for this.
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A Terrible Friday Afternoon
Apollo 1 January 28, 1967

A Terrible Friday Afternoon

Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are dead. There was a fire on the launch pad yesterday afternoon during a ground test. I heard it on the radio on the way home from work. I had to pull over. I sat in the car for a long time before…
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