Happy Freedom 7 Anniversary!

I found the full video! It was posted last December on YouTube. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrazL120rG0

Wally Schirra made a parody video of Alan Shepard. On the 6th anniversary of Freedom 7, this video, called “Astronaut Hero, or How to Succeed in Business Without Flying … Much”, was shown at a fundraiser in front of hundreds of people. Schirra narrated the funny film that featured planes crashing, Freedom 7’s recovery, and the first two space chimps: Ham and Enos. It featured the picture above also. The film humorously made fun of Shepard. At the end of the five-minute video, Shepard unexpectedly came on the screen and said “Wally, I expect you to be at my office at oh-eight-hundred Monday morning”. Schirra did not know about that little scene that Shepard had added.

I have only found a four-minute version of this film on a PBS site. That version was posted over five years ago. Is there a site online where the full video is found??? I really want to see the entire thing.

Sources: http://ablogaboutnothinginparticular.com/?p=1433 and Neal Thompson’s book “Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard”.

apparently the cops arrested fuckin Bicycles Georg today

Meirl

Quick someone show this to all the old shrinks who “didn’t want to label” us

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sometimes i try to scroll past this but then i feel guilty