Triggered this afternoon at the site behind me. Vice was the Industrial Site behind me here. The shotgun shell was discharged. The victim avoided most of the blast we are told. He was struck by one small pellet. He is fine and talking to the detectives. They were called back to the building after the mishap. He hit a trip wire and triggered a concealed boobytrap. It had a shotgun shell like this one. And caused the shotgun round to go off and it expelled shells and struck him in his flank. It caused a mark. The gentleman did not hit him in a more sensitive location. Reporter it dealt with the makes of four other boobytraps. Would were rigged. They were rendered safe. They were rigwired boobytraps. They are disarmed. They would not function as the design but the intent was still there. Reporter today began when the sheriffs deputies moved to evict sharlene and roland mcvicker. The control agents were called to pick up the many dogs. They advised him of the boobytraps that he used to war
Associate director at the air and space museum. This week veteran space correspondent jay barbree and his latest book Neil Armstrong a life in flight. And at the nbc news man and a bestselling author examined the life of the first man to walk on the moon on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. The program is about an hour im a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of Neil Armstrongs life in flight a new biography of Neil Armstrong. Im very familiar because he was a voice on the radio and a face on tv in my years as a space buff in the 1960s it was nice to talk with you today. Why did you decide to write this book . We talked about it for about 20 years because we had a close friend for half a century and i wrote a book with alan shepard which did well in the New York Times best seller list and he did the introduction of that. So we had to talk to because he didnt want a biography. He wanted the story of his life and flight and he felt like anything that he did commit an
Those are nasa engineers over there and this was the world that was normal to them and that the wives tried very hard to keep normal and grounded. You kind of alluded to how much the wives seem to change after the Apollo Program and i was wondering if you could share some of the astronauts of the wives thoughts on what was it like when that ended and did they feel like it should continue and almost is there almost is there a sense of ptsd among the families . Yeah, i think everyone is pretty sad when nixon ended the Apollo Program and these wives kyc today and i think in history they will continue to be seen. Ive told this to them as sort of our pioneer space women. They were the pioneers. Their husbands were doing something we had never done before. You know, just the surreal moments of going out in your backyard as jane conrad remember to me when her husband was up there on apollo 12 Walking Around the moon and a house that just cleared out. She had all the wives over for a party. It
That was a relationship you established earlier on. At least after the 1964. He was flying and the slowest person ever to answer you. We have a great chapter in the book that involves neal and tom stafford. They were stand offish to the nine like you have to earn your way to the club. They said you need to throw a dinner for them and make it black tie and show them respect. He said i will put it together. The first words from staffords mouth was who is paying for this . Tom went to the naval academy. His father had to borrow the money to buy the bus ticket to send him off. Neal said the last time that stafford picked up a check she was hitchhiking in europe. They brought in the best of wines and when they sat down for dinner, you know, they brought it out and it was supposed to be fried veal with potatoes. And his was fried card board when it came out. And potatoes were you know stinking and the salads were sitting in the sun. Are you old enough to remember the turtle club . Host i was
Innovation that could solve some of these issues i just saw a statistic last week that is striking this will be more People Killed by guns this year and buy cars. At what level that is a lot of people with the terrifying statistic a lot of that is suicide but that is a lot of people obviously but what about cars . That used to killed many more people but they made them safer they did not confiscate the cars or take away peoples right to travel or drive they changed the drinking age your required air bags or seat belts in all the ways that overtime with a lot of controversy cars were made safer and there are all kinds of ways to make guns save for less likely to be used by the wrong people whereby children or in the wrong hands or by somebody who was not a lawabiding citizen. One of the examples is the micro stamping is what marks the bullet as it leaves the gun to be traced back to the owner. That will get litigated and i wish to that the debate was says reasonable as the one that we h