July 20–October 31, 2019
Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas
Hall Gallery
In 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins captured the world’s imagination with their successful voyage to the surface of the moon. Television networks invested heavily to cover this watershed moment in history, bringing the crew of Apollo 11 into the living room of millions of Americans, an event that has remained etched in America’s cultural memory. This exhibit, drawn from the center’s news media archives, showed selections from the papers of Walter Cronkite, CBS senior producer Robert Wussler, and other journalists, producers, and communication professionals who covered the moon landing.
