Listening in the car on audio…High Noon…about the making of the movie…and it’s screenplay author (Carl Foreman) being subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during its filming, how the screenplay became an allegory for blacklisted Hollywood stars, directors, screenwriters, etc., being abandoned by their friends like the townspeople abandon Gary Cooper; the story of the entire blacklist era…the interesting roles played by John Wayne, gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, the movie’s star, Cooper, who, while very anti-Commie, stood by Foreman.
Reading One Giant Leap….the history of Apollo, from Sputnik forward…Kennedy’s speech, all the way to the Moon.