He and His Mom Preserved a 1969 Moon Landing Newspaper. a Half Century Later, He Unwrapped It for the First Time

Community Community Doha British A bronze School (DBS) statue of P6students P16 Apollo 11 achieve astronauts unveiled at excellent results the new Moon Tree in IB diploma Garden at Kennedy examinations. Space Center. Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Dhul-Qa’da 21, 1440 AH Doha today: 330 - 380 PIECE OF HISTORY: The label can be seen on the preserved original Monday, July 21, 1969 historic edition of the Chicago Daily News front page story on the moon landing, which was opened at the Chicago Tribune newspaper off ice, on Friday, July 19, 2019. Glen Williams, the owner, was 15 years old when he and his mother Edna Williams followed the preservation instructions on the newspaper’s edition and stored it away for 50 years. COVER STORY Surprise package He and his mom preserved a 1969 moon landing newspaper. A half century later, he unwrapped it for the first time. P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BOLLYWOOD ‘Nobody is perfect’: Co-stars Jacqueline launches spring to Huff man’s defence. YouTube channel. 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For details, contact 66523871/ During this time, all therapists and Mamangam is an art and performance 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 24, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY That epic day The newsprint had browned a bit, but it remained in excellent condition. The ink still came off on our fingers as we paged through the stories and photos and ads and opinion pieces, reports Heidi Stevens THE MOMENT: Glen Williams, 65, opens up his preserved original, Monday, July 21, 1969 historic edition of the Chicago Daily News front page story on the moon landing, at the Chicago Tribune newspaper off ice, Friday, July 19, 2019. ifty years ago, Glen There was tremendous Williams, along with an excitement, too. A sense of unity estimated 600 million embraced the nation. Tens of other people around thousands of people gathered in We got a cotton sheet and rolled it the globe, watched, New York’s Central Park to watch Ftransfi xed, as a television screen gigantic television screens. Cheers up in that. Then, we wrapped it in showed Apollo 11 touching down on erupted in living rooms and bars aluminium foil and put a layer of the moon. and airports and parks across the Williams was 15 at the time, country when Neil Armstrong plastic over that. (My mother and living in south suburban Riverdale. took his first, powdery steps. He was crazy about astronomy, The day of the landing, July I) covered the whole thing in thick, and the moon landing, which he 20, 1969, the Chicago Daily News watched with his mom, dad and included a note to readers regarding clear packing tape and labelled it: two sisters, was an enormous, life- the following day’s newspaper. MOON LANDING JULY 21, 1969 changing event. It would be a historic edition, “I remember there was a lot of editors noted, fi lled with coverage apprehension,” Williams said. “I of the landing: How it went. Who remember thinking, ‘OK, they have watched. How they reacted. What it — Glen Williams, professor of physics to take off again from the moon. all meant. What if that goes wrong? What if The note off ered instructions and astronomy they’re stuck there?’ That would on how to preserve that history- ‘ have been terrible.” recording newspaper as a keepsake, ’ Wednesday, July 24, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY should readers be so inclined.

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