Edward Campbell
was born in Sweet Water, Texas on May 23, 1938. In 1964 he went to work for NASA as an astronaut test subject for the Apollo Space Program. I tested the suit; I tested the backpack; they called it the PLSS- Portable Life Support System. I made sure all the little things they wanted to pick up the rocks with worked and set out the ground surveying instrument and ground fermurs and power plants.
(Interviewer: Matthew Hoyt, Palo Alto College Student, Spring 2003)
Fabian Felux was born on February 26, 1932 in Cestohowa, Texas. He was drafted into the Army during the Korean War and served in the United States as an engineer. It seemed like for a while everybody was afraid of Communists. Captain America was always fighting them. I mean, we heard about that kind of stuff on the news but it was like we had our own world out in the country. All of the stuff that was happening in the world seemed kind of far away from us. I don't think we really even knew what a Communist was. We just knew they were bad guys from Russia who wanted to kill us and take away our freedom. At least that's what we thought at the time.
(Interviewer: Justin Felux, Palo Alto College Student, Spring 2003)
Charles Nelson Hutchins was born May 28, 1947 in Amarillo and raised in west Texas. Well the main thing that the community did would be through the school community. We would have bomb drills, I guess, where we would get under the desk and cover our head maybe out in the hall, and we would have those kind of drills. I don't know if they would have been very affective had there been a war. But some of the people in the neighborhood would build bomb shelters, which were concrete bunkers that were built in the backyards. Our family, we didn't have any bomb shelters. If we had a war, I guess we would have gone over to a neighbor's house.
(Interviewer: Abby Hutchins, Palo Alto College Student, Maymester 2003)
Juan Gonzalez Regino was born on May 27, 1930 in San Antonio, Texas. When we got there we were called occupational forces because we were occupying Germany after the war and where we were staying at the buildings were destroyed but they were remodeling so it was so it was getting back to normal for them, but for us it was still different, we didn’t use U.S. dollars, we were using money called striped money but it had the same value.
(Interviewer: David Regino Lopez Jr., Palo Alto College Student, Maymester 2003)
