General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:7/84

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #7 / No. 84

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_007-084

Legacy ID

rfe_astronauts_001

Date

1962

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Crusade for Freedom, Inc.
Memorandum
Date: 1 October 1962
Subject: Photo of Astronaut Schirra
To: Field Staff Members
From: J. P. MacBean
In view of this week’s planned orbital flight by Astronaut Schirra, I thought that attached photo would be useful to you in local publicity. the picture was taken some time ago when the members of Project Mercury were interviewed by RFE reporters; but since RFE regularly schedules programs about the U.S. space achievements, the picture is not dated. RFE will, of course, give full coverage to Schirra’s flight.
When details of the flight are known, any information you feel will be helpful can be added to the bare caption attached.
J. P. MacBean

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

Cold War, Crusade for Freedom, Iron curtain, man, monitoring, Radio broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, space