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To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. His name was Ham, the first chimpanzee in space and a critical part of the early 1960s American space program. He did survive space travel and this was very important as earlier dogs, especially Laika the Russian dog, did not survive and this horrified animal activists and others around the world. I used a portion of this film in my four-part Turner Broadcasting television series on the Apollo race to the moon, titled Moonshot. #nasahistory #hamthe chimp

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. The speaker is Carl Oglesby, one of the founders of Students For A Democratic Society, SDS, a radical antiwar organization. I was making my 6 part PBS television series, Making Sense of the Sixties and I picked to film the people I thought most powerfully articulated their experiences. Carl was one. Every comment he made could have been transcribed and written a book. Whether or not you agree with his point of view, he was brilliantly articulate at expressing it.