Edward H. White II Memorial Fund

Edward H. White II Memorial Fund
Edward H. White II Memorial Fund
 

File Number
PERS343d
Box Number
343
Title
Edward H. White II Memorial Fund
Category
Personal
Type
 
Dates, approximate
1969-1977
Pages
251
Description
Correspondence with Pat White, Edward H. White III, Playboy magazine, and mutual friends of the Whites and Heinleins, Jack & Aletha Jackson and Giles Welch.
Publication
 
Cross References
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Files
1 file
Original File Name
00003993_CORRES_MISE.pdf
Notes
File is made up of a series of correspondences starting shortly after the Apollo 11 landings on the moon. Robert covered the landings with CBS from North American Rockwell headquarters in California. Shortly thereafter, Playboy asked Robert to do an interview conducted by Frank Robinson. This interview was eventually published in much shortened form in OUI magazine in December, 1972.  Robert donated the entirety of his fee for this interview, $2,000, to the Edward H. White II Memorial fund. White, along with Gus Grissom and Roger Chafee, was killed in the Apollo 1 launchpad test fire on January 27, 1967.