Months after surveyors landing, men were leaving the earth to land on the ocean of storms. Charles pete conrad, richard crew ofalan dean, the apollo 12, the second manned landing on the face of the moon. Their target, the site of surveyor three. 4, 3, 2,1, 0. Apollo 12 lifted off in the driving rain. In. He program is clear. This babys really going. 36 seconds later, lightning struck the spacecraft. Dont know what happened here. Showing your hit by lightning. Disconnecting. A and b out. We had a couple cardiac arrest down here, too. Tell you one thing looking good. They space and on earth, checked systems to make sure the lightning caused no damage that would endanger the mission. The time for commitment neared, to send apollo 12 to the moon. Translator injection, trans lunar injection, tli. Apollo houston, the good word is you are ready for tli. We are ready. We didnt expect anything else. We didnt train for anything else. You Better Believe it. Burn looks good. Off, apollones cut 12
Preceding that happy occasion, the 52 underwent over 14 months of anxiety, uncertainty and fates were manipulated by the iranians. Here to describe some of the events from those months is air force colonel thomas schaefer, the senior ranking military hostage who was performing duty as Defense Attache at the time of the takeover. Col. Schaefer thank you, claude. It is indeed a pleasure to be here today with you, for me to tell you about my experience, to share with you some of the major items that i have gone through to possibly help you in a future situation. Either as a hostage or captive. You probably would ask, how does one cope with this type of experience . First of all, initially after it happened, as we were taken captive, i forgot, purposely, i forgot about how it happened. I got rid of that, accepted the fact that i was a captive and did not dwell on it. One must be disciplined in this type of a situation, in this environment, to establish a schedule purposely to take us up ev
Is a time to remember the fact that eight americans are still hostage, denied of their freedom because of the threat of terrorism in the middle east. [tie a yellow ribbon] air force colonel Thomas Schaefer was the highest ranking military officer among 52 hostages who were held for 444 days in iran from november 4, 1979, to january 20, 1981. Colonel schaefer, who died in 2016 at the age of 85, was held in solitary confinement for more than three months. Next on reel america, colonel schaefers intelligence briefing for fellow air force officers after release, detailing his strategies for coping with the ordeal. The jubilation in these photographs was occasioned by the release of the 52 american hostages from iran. Preceding that happy occasion, the 52 underwent over 14 months of anxiety, uncertainty, and fears as their daytoday existence and fates were manipulated by the iranians. Here to describe some of the events from those months is air force colonel Thomas Schaefer, the senior rank
Col. Schaefer this was occasioned by the release of the 52 american hostages from iran. Preceding that happy occasion, the 52 underwent over 14 months of anxiety, uncertainty and fears as their daytoday existence and fates were manipulated by the iranians. Here to describe some of the events from those months is air force colonel thomas schaefer, the senior ranking military hostage who was performing duty as Defense Attache at the time of the takeover. Col. Schaefer thank you, claude. It is indeed a pleasure to be here today with you, for me to tell you about my experience, to share with you some of the major items that i have gone through to possibly help you in a future situation. Either as a hostage or captive. You probably would ask, how does one cope with this type of experience . First of all, initially after it happened, as we were taken captive, i forgot, purposely, i forgot about how it happened. I got rid of that, accepted the fact that i was a captive and did not dwell on it
applause applause first of all, i have to say, its nice to see familiar faces out here. Lots of people from pasadena village and relatives. My daughter is out here with my soninlaw and his parents are here. Most of all, i have to thank my wife for being here. If she will just raise her hand. As most of you know, whenever you endeavor on a real good project, your spouse is the one who picks up the other stuff, and lark kept me organized, kept me going and made sure i did not lose too much focus of where i was going with this. So let me get started. The intention of my book is to let you know more about me in the beginning before i attended kent state, my introduction to photography, and the rest of the story starts with when i enrolled in kent state in march of 1969. I will give you a glimpse of the campus life i knew before may 4. The rest is about the photography of my experience. Thats me in the photo standing next to my mom looking up at my newest brother, rick. Thats rick. The clev