Big 1969 News Year Apollo Moon Triumph Tops AP Poll
The AP survey ranks the moon landing as the era’s top story with Armstrong and Aldrin in the spotlight. It details the Eagle and Columbia missions, the lunar landing, rock samples, and the global TV audience while recounting other major 1969 events from Vietnam to the Kennedy and Chappaquiddick episodes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neil A. Armstrong
Armstrong
Air Force
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Houston
Tranquility
Columbia
Michael Collins
Aldrin
Earth
Eagle
Moon
Pacific Ocean
Charles Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Navy
Conrad
Bean
Richard Gordon
Vietnam
Armstrong Named 1969 Newsmaker by AP Editors
Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon is named top newsmaker of 1969 by Associated Press editors. The piece notes his Kentucky born youth, Purdue studies, Navy service, and NASA career including Gemini docking and Apollo training. It also lists other 1969 newsmakers such as Charles de Gaulle, John Knowles, Joe Namath, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Vietnam
U.S. Army
My Lai
Saigon
Pentagon
U.S. Senate
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Neil Alden Armstrong
Associated Press
Armstrong
Ohio
Purdue University
Navy
Korea
Purdue
National Advisory Council On Aeronautics
Cleveland
Council
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Charles DeGaulle
France
DeGaulle
London
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Algeria
Senate
John H. Knowles
William H. Donaldson
Tom and
Dick Smothers
Joe Namath
Episcopal
James A. Pike
Norman Mailer
George Meany
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Bus driver jailed for early departure in Dar es Salaam
In Dar es Salaam Ethiopia AP reports bus driver Saidi Jabu age 23 was sentenced to one month in jail or a five pound fine for leaving the depot an hour early, causing many passengers to miss the bus. He sought leniency claiming his watch ran fast. Arizona statehood noted: Arizona admitted to the Union on February 14 1912 as the 48th state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
United States Supreme Court
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abe Fortas
Fortas
Senate
Earl Warren
Family Foundation
Louis Wolfson
Wolfson
William O. Douglas
Yale Law School
Douglas
Albert Parvin Foundation
Los Angeles
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Las Vegas
Foundation
Warren
Judicial Conference
Supreme Court
Nixon
Warren L. Burger
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Burger
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
U.S. Court of Appeals
Fourth Circuit
Haynsworth
South Carolina
Court of Appeals
Jets
Baltimore
Pete Rozelle
Bachelors III
James A. Pike
Episcopal
California
Pike
Norman Mailer
New York City
Democratic Party
Dar ES Salaam
Ethiopia
Saidi Jabu
Arizona
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Naomi Rock
AP News
Edward M. Kennedy
U.S. Supreme Court
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mets
Sirhan B. Sirhan
James Earl Ray
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Paris
Lodge
United States
South Vietnam
Green Berets
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
White House
Lewis B. Hershey
John
Robert
Kennedy
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
Finance Committee
Lyndon Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
Chappaquiddick Island
Mass
Martha’s Vineyard
Sen
Mary Jo Kopechne
Miss Kopechne
Wilkes-Barre
AP Newsfeatures
Massachusetts General Hospital
American Medical Association
Knowles
AMA
Roger 0. Egeberg
University of Southern California Medical School
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Donaldson
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Tom
CBS
Smothers Brothers
New York Jets
Mailer
Aflcio
Clement F. Haynsworth
Meany
Organized Labor
Senate Judiciary Committee
Aristotle Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Watchers
Neil Armstrong
Hell's Angels OF
Dustin Hoffman
Mia Farrow
Princess Cometown
John Wayne Rock Hudson
Driven Theatre
Barbara Ferris
Eli Wallach
Killers
Dick Clark
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