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Title: Citation
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Brich, George
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Edward Joseph Dwight Jr. was born in Kansas City on September 9, 1933, and joined the United States Air Force in 1953 at the age of 20. In 1961, the Kennedy administration selected Captain Dwight Jr. as the first African American astronaut trainee at the Experimental Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base near Lancaster. He was one of fifteen pilots selected for the aerospace school, which provided classroom instruction and flight training in space simulators and high performance jets. He served in the Air Force from 1953 until 1966.
Photograph caption dated July 25, 1963 reads, "Capt. Dwight receives citation from officials of the Los Angeles Urban League. Left to right are Brig. Gen. Irving Branch, Edwards AFB commander; D.R. Zook, Urban League; Dwight: Wesley Brazier, Urban League, and Col. 'Chuck' Yeager, astronaut training commandant at Edwards AFB."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00123877
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d027_f32_i14
CARL0005417751
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/55869
Subject: Branch, Irving L.--(Irving Lewis),--1912-1966
Dwight, Edward,--Jr.,--1933-
Yeager, Chuck,--1923-
Zook, Dwight R
Brazier, Wesley
Los Angeles Urban League--Employees
Astronauts--United States
Supersonic planes
Starfighter (Fighter plane)
Men--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Airplanes--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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