Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman (68 page)

page 438, “The search goes on . . .”: Ibid.

page 439, “Some unfortunate ones didn’t have a dream”:
The Other Side of the
Moon
(Discovery Communications Inc., unreleased review copy).

page 439, He once told a friend: Author interview with Allen Neuharth.

page 440, “to put it in a box, and on a shelf”: Shepard, Academy of Achievement.

page 440, “gone to great lengths to maintain my privacy”: “People in the News,” Associated Press (May 5, 1979).

page 440, “where else are you going to go?”: Watson,
The Washington Times.

page 441, “about broke even on that”: Wainwright,
Life
(1971).

page 441, “some good business deals and some bad ones”: Wainwright,
Life
(1971); Platt,
Florida Today;
“Alan Shepard: Oldest, Richest of Astronauts,”
Washington Post
(January 3, 1971).

page 441, “for my own personal gain”: Olive M. Abbott, et al.,
From Turnpike
to Interstate: The 150 Years of Derry, New Hampshire
(Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1977), p. 90.

page 441, businessmen . . . “like ducks to water”: Author interview with Gordon Cooper.

page 442, Shepard . . . experienced “his share of close calls”: Ibid.

page 442, “not to use my position as an astronaut”: Wainwright,
Life
(1970).

page 442, “I tried to separate the two”: Ibid.

page 442, [Molly Ivins on Texas]: Molly Ivins,
Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can
She?
(New York: Random House, 1991).

page 443, “He was quite a salesman”: Author interview with Howard Benedict.

page 443, “The business world has smiled upon us”: Naval Academy “Class of ’45” newsletter (1985).

page 443, “never really a fan” of the stock market: Shepard, unpublished interview with author Robert Sherrod.

page 444, [Shepard’s first Kmart]: Ibid.

page 444, “a relatively good investment”: Robert Sh
errod, unpublished manuscript, NASA archives.

page 445, “The pay is a lot better than going to the moon”: Henry,
All Hands
(1982).

page 446, Kraft agreed to put $10,000 down: Author interview with Chris Kraft.

page 446, “Al, I don’t trust this guy”: Ibid.

page 446, “I haven’t seen a dollar of profit yet”: Ibid.

page 446, “until I’m pushing up daisies”: Ibid.

page 446, “got taken . . . We have nothing”: Cathy Gordon, “Pothol
es and Promises,”
Houston Chronicle
(June 21, 1987).

page 447, “He was lucky he didn’t go to jail”: Author interview with
Chris Kraft.

page 448, besides making money: Naval Academy “Class of ’45” newsletter (1985).

page 448, “a hell of a lot more famous”: Doug Ferguson, “Moon Mulligan,”
Houston Chronicle
(July 23, 1998).

page 449, “metabolized a lot of adrenaline in my life”: Pat Sullivan, “An Astronaut’s Pitch for Pebble Beach,”
San Francisco Chronicle
(January 15, 1991).

page 449, “his ability didn’t always match his competitiveness”: Author interview with Bob Murphy.

page 449, “chicken feed”: NBC Sports Spectacular (May 17, 1971).

page 450, “the world’s best kept secret”: “Shepard Admits Three Shots to Sink Moon Hole-in-One,”
Philadelphia Bulletin
(May 2, 1971).

page 450, “I’ve never told anybody”: Jaime Diaz, “Shooting for the Moon,”
Sports Illustrated
(August 3, 1998).

page 450, Shepard’s moon balls were . . . made by Spalding: Ibid.

page 450, “I wonder where my golf ball is”: Author interview with Bob Murphy.

21: “I saw a different Alan Shepard, completely different”

page 451, “the question of what bravery is”: Mort Sheinman, “Tom Wolfe; the Author of ‘The Right Stuff’ Blasts Off In This 1979 Interview,”
Women’s Wear
Daily
(September 13, 1999).

pages 452–453, [Louise and
The Right Stuff
]: Author interview with Dorel Alco Abbot.

page 453, “I have nothing to gain and everything to lose”: Ibid.

page 453, “none of it was all that accurate”: Slayton and Cassut,
DEKE!,
p. 317.

page 453, “poetic license . . . great movie”: Elisabeth Bumiller and Phi
l McCombs, “The Right Stuff,”
The Washington Post
(October 17, 1983).

page 453, “just fiction”: Brenda You, “Alan Shepard Gets Another S
hot at Fame,”
The Chicago Tribune
(June 16, 1994).

page 453, “What movie?”: Watson,
The Washington Times.

page 453, “nowhere near as tough as I was”: Ibid.

page 454, without interviewing any of “the original guys”: Jeffrey Weiss, “Alan B. Shepard Jr.,”
The Dallas Morning News
(July 10, 1994).

page 455, “old disagreements didn’t seem so important”: Ibid.

page 455, “Your idea, you do it”: Author interview with Henri Landwirth; Landwirth,
Gift of Life,
p. 165.

page 456, [Shepard watching space shuttle explosion]: Author interview with Bob Murphy.

page 456, “a sense of overconfidence, a sense of complacency”: Weiss,
The
Dallas Morning News.

page 456, “We thought, as a group . . .”: Patt Morrison, “25 Years Later, Mercury Team Launches New Task,”
Los Angeles Times
(May 5, 1986).

page 457, secretly gave money to help a child: Author interview with Bobbie Slayton.

page 457, gave one of his secondhand cars: Author interview with John Fasolino.

page 457, his parents’ . . . housekeeper’s well: Author interview with Hattie Durgin.

page 458, “He didn’t take one penny for himself”: Author interview with Henri Landwirth.

page 458, “He became passionate about it”: Author interview with Howard Benedict.

page 458, “He was very generous”: Author interview with Wally Schirra.

page 458, “Al was the one who really persisted”: Author interview with John Glenn.

page 459, “Hey, what’re you doing?”: Author interview with John Fasolino.

page 459, One of the other twelve moonwalkers once said:
The Other Side of
the Moon
(Discovery Communications Inc., unreleased review copy).

page 459, “You really end up caring for this planet”: Ibid.

page 460, “If this will help Deke, I’ll do it”: Author interview with Howard Benedict.

page 461, “He did that for Deke and me”: Author interview with Bobbie Slayton.

page 462, getting a morning tee time ten minutes before: Author interview with Doc Abbot.

page 462, a round with Tiger Woods: Author interview with Robert Williams.

22: “This is the toughest man I’ve ever met”

page 463, ceremony for the Alan B. Shepard Jr.: Author interview with Jack Lengyl.

page 464, “I’m going to beat this”: Author interview with Robert Williams.

page 465, [AT&T Pro-Am—not invited back]: Author inte
rview with Bob Murphy; author interview with Daniel Hruby, AT&T Pro-Am historian.

page 465, not a candidate for a bone marrow transplant: Author
interview with Mickey Kapp.

page 465, his twice-monthly “pinking up”: Ibid.

page 465, traveled the country looking for a cure: Author interview with Robert Williams.

page 467, “trying to get along, desperately trying to get along”: Cheryl Arvidson, “Alan Shepard remembered as space hero, First Amendment supporter,”
The Freedom Forum
(Web site obituary, July 22, 1998).

page 467, “Go talk to my doctor”: Transcript of Shepard interview on CNN (June 20, 1998).

page 468, “a very emotional evening”: Author interview with John Glenn.

page 469, “That was competition at its best”: Shepard, Academy of Achievement.

page 470, One astronaut had seven wives in sixteen years: Cunningham.
The All-American Boys,
p. 187.

page 471, Louise spoke of how much she missed him: Author inter
view with Loraine Meyer.

page 471, she might not be cut out for widowhood: Author interview with Dorel Alco Abbot.

page 472, Laura told a family friend . . . : Author interview with Robert Williams.

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