Bart Winfield Sibrel
Look for Buzz's right hook to be acted out on The Simpsons.
Posted on 09/11/2002 10:32:28 AM PDT by TomB
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) -- A man who publicly confronted astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin over whether he actually went to the moon said that the Apollo 11 hero almost sent him into space with a punch to the jaw.
Bart Sibrel, an independent filmmaker from Nashville, Tennessee, said he was trying to conduct an ambush interview with Aldrin outside a hotel in Beverly Hills when the astronaut punched him and ran away.
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It was Bean - the rookie on the flight. That was the same flight where ground personnel snuck photos from Playboy magazine into Conrad's and Bean's checklists on the lunar surface.
One of the episodes of HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" documents this mission pretty thoroughly (and entertainingly).
Bart Winfield Sibrel
Look for Buzz's right hook to be acted out on The Simpsons.
Contact Bart at
bart@moonmovie.com
"Every once in a while a man comes along who not only asks to be pounded into the ground, down right begs for it. It is every mans duty to accommodate him for one day it may be him that is in desperate need."
It was obvious he is completely clueless.
He actually debated the creator of the Bad Astronomy website, astronomer Phil Plait, on a college radio station a few months back, and was completely eviscerated.
Fightin' words if I ever heard any. Even a quaker or buddhist might be tempted to knock Sibrel on his loudmouth butt.
Hey, the guy was "eviscerated" by an astronomer and flattened by the right hook of a man in his seventies. I can definitely see a Quaker rolling up his sleeve and saying: "Sibrel, I intend to thrash thee to within an inch of thy miserable life!"
Done.
Many thanks.
Just to set the record straight, Borman was head of United Airlines, not Boeing.
But that does not affect the point you were making.....
You guys are BOTH wrong, for crying out loud. He was president of Eastern Airlines.
He was promoted to Executive Vice President-Genera Operations Manager and was elected to Eastern's Board of Directors in July 1974. In May 1975 he was elected President and Chief Operating Officer. He was named Chief Executive Officer in December 1975 and became Chairman of the Board in December 1976.
During his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Eastern, the airline industry went through an enormous change caused by deregulation. During this period Eastern originated several unique programs including profit sharing and wages tied to company profitability. These programs produced the four most profitable years in the company's history. A recalcitrant union forced their abandonment in 1983 and the resulting loses led to the sale of the airline to Texas Air Corporation. Colonel Borman retired from Eastern Airlines in June of 1986."
In other words, Bart, not someone to call "a coward and a liar" if you're expecting to get away with it.
Ooooops!
I knew it was an airline... do I get half credit?
OK, I'll give you that one. ;-)
OK, I'll give you that one. ;-)
If the moon landings were faked, then how could they get this view of this earthset (or earthrise)?
If he didn't have the Right Stuff, who did?
From Nassau Bay, you get a different view. Nasa put lipstick on some brats and gosh, don't people love them. More Peter Keating than Tom Hanks.
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