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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 19 min., 54 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Aerospace engineer and major general (ret) Charles F. Bolden, Jr. was born on August 19, 1946, in Columbia, South Carolina. In 1968, Bolden graduated with his B.S. degree in electrical science from the U.S. Naval Academy, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. In 1970, he completed flight school and flew in more than one hundred combat missions during the Vietnam War. In 1990, he piloted Space Shuttle Discovery, whose mission it was to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. During Operation Desert Thunder-Kuwait in 1998, he was Commanding General of the Marine Expeditionary Force. He was inducted into the NASA Hall of Fame. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Bolden as the NASA Administrator, making him only the second astronaut and the first African American to serve in this position. Bolden and his wife, Alexis Walker, have two children: USMC Lt. Col. Anthony, and Michelle, M.D.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr.
Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr.
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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