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Memorial service for Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair at Trinity Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

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Title: Memorial service for Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair at Trinity Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, Calif., 1986
Contributor: Davis, Larry
Date Created and/or Issued: February 6, 1986
1986-02-06
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Black Astronaut's Eulogy: 'He Reached for the Stars' Portrait of Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair, above, was center of a memorial service at the Trinity Baptist Church in South Los Angeles on Wednesday as several hundred people gathered to pay their respects. Choir members, lower right, examine a model of the space shuttle.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b3360_303301-1
ark:/21198/zz0002vmpd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster
African American astronauts
Memorial rites & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Astronauts--United States
Events
Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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