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channels, all perfectly okay. They couldn't do anything about it. And, we didn't have anybody in the blockhouse. They were in it up to the point where they were counting down. The representative of “See It Now” pulled the string on the camera so the camera started running, got the hell out, and we had the footage.

Q:

So the show ran?

Stanton:

Oh, yes, sure. But, I made sure the highest level at the White House knew we had that, and that we had observed the restrictions. But, I think it did teach the White House a lesson that they had to put a bigger blanket over it than they had put on that particular thing, because we were in the blockhouse. No question about it. We could look right out through the gunslit and see the firing of the missile. “The Biography of a Missile,” I remember it very clearly.

Q:

A terrific story.

Stanton:

So, these were the interesting things that went on, as a result of being into these inside operations.

Q:

A terrific story. Let me turn the tape over here.

[END TAPE ONE, SIDE ONE; BEGIN TAPE ONE, SIDE TWO]

Stanton:

Those meetings took place -- I can fix it now in connection with an event -- They were taking place at about the time of the construction of the Berlin wall. A lot of the





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