Mayor Tom Bradley, left, and astronaut Scott Carpenter listen as the first domestic commercial satellite-connected telegraphic message is sent from New York to Los Angeles, using the same sender and receiver used by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1884 in his first message between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, M.D. Photo dated: July 15, 1974.
Bradley, Tom,--1917-1998 Carpenter, M. Scott--(Malcolm Scott),--1925-2013 Los Angeles (Calif.).--Office of the Mayor Mayors--California--Los Angeles Astronauts--California--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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