Joan Ganz Cooney | 07/19/2009 11:00 pm
Joan Ganz Cooney: Nixon, Kennedy and King on Her Mind
In response to: Today marks 40 years since man's first visit to the moon. Did you watch the event? What do you recall thinking and feeling?
I did watch the landing on the moon in my apartment, and was happy the Eagle had landed successfully – but I was in the midst of getting "Sesame Street" on the air (it debuted in November of 1969), still mourning the deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, trying to absorb the fact that Richard Nixon was about to be inaugurated president and filled with anger over the Vietnam War. I have never been thrilled about space exploration so I guess that makes me unimaginative and earthbound but there it is.
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