Joe M. Dealey Jr. collection, 1900-2010 1970-1990.

Cronkite, Walter, 1916-2009

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For newspapers, radio, and television, Walter Leland Cronkite (1916-2009) covered almost every major news event in the world from World War II to his retirement in 1982. Since then, he worked on special projects and continued a career in writing. He was born Nov. 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Mo., and grew up in Houston, where he attended high school. While attending the University of Texas, he worked at the capital bureau of the Scripps-Howard newspapers and in his junior year, he left ...

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Project Mercury (U.S.)

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...

Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923-1998

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Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II. He became a naval aviator in 1946, and a test pilot in 1950. He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in ...

Moseley, T. Michael

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A.H. Belo Corporation

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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

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Dealey, Joe M., Jr.

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Depicted by authors Darwin Payne and Kathy Fitzpatrick in their book From Prairie to Planes as Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's "most visible spokesperson," Joseph M. Dealey Jr. guided the airport's public affairs for fifteen years and was instrumental in the airport's silver anniversary celebration on September 22, 1998. Serving from 1984-1999 as a public information specialist and ultimately the airport's Director of Public Affairs, Dealey was directly involved in many im...

Grinnell, Roy

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Glenn, John, Jr.

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Dealey, Joseph M., Jr.

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