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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated February 21, 1962 partially reads, "Seventy youthful eyes stared at the flickering portable television set Tuesday in North Hollywood. 'It's just like history,' a freckle-faced lad surmised...'It is history,' Mrs. Marilyn Short, their teacher at Coldwater Canyon Avenue School, patiently explained...In a scene repeated in hundreds of Valley classrooms, students received a first-hand and vivid science lesson--the three-orbit flight of astronaut John Glenn."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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