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Harry Atkins, Cronkite's offce, Ralph Petroff.

Phone call from Bob Ward to Harry Atkins. Conversation about Wernher von Braun stories and how the space program began in Huntsville. Also discussed is historical revisionism around von Braun and his team. Side 1 of tape up tp 42:30.

Short phone call where a receptionist takes a message from Bob Ward to Walter Cronkite. 42:30 to end of side 1.

Conversation with Ralph Petroff on his encounters with Wernher von Braun. Petroff recounts von Braun's somewhat mythic status as well as the strife in early NASA between the Germans and the Jews. Entirety of side 2.

1999

Audiocassettes

Ward Collection

University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama

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