Sound recordings.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gary Everhardt Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0344
Abstract
Gary Everhardt was an engineer with the National Park Service who became Assistant Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park in 1969 and Superintendent of Grand Teton National Park in 1972. In 1975 he became the ninth Director of the National Park Service where he oversaw the park-wide celebration of the national Bicentennial and doubled the acreage of lands belonging to the Service, promoting land conservation and preservation. In 1977 he resigned from the directorship and became...
Dates:
1936 - 2005; Majority of material found within , 1972-1999
Man on the Moon Sound Recording
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0214
Scope and Contents
The phonodisk, which is narrated by Walter Cronkite of the Columbia Broadcasting System, begins with President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's May 25, 1961, address to Congress concerning the space program of the United States. The first side of the phonodisk then describes the lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins on the...
Dates:
1969