Okay, I uploaded the first two short videos, part 1 and 2 of Ray's interview on the Walter Cronkite show the night of the first moon landing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMEsu0FARU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1h8zASNgXk

to be followed by Ray's commentary on the events of the night, and what led to the interview on the Walter Cronkite show.

here is Ray's commentary on what happened to him on the night of the first moon landing, in two parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXfJMRLDhk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20p7mMDSm0

Nice clips, fanboy, thanks for posting them.

I don't like to spoil a good anecdote, but Ray has told this one so many times that it has drifted some way from the reality.

He mentions "Prime Minister MacMillan". In fact, the Prime Minister at the time was Harold Wilson (MacMillan left office in 1963). (I supposed it's possible that EX-Prime Minister MacMillan was on the Frost show, but none of the sources I've looked at confirm this.)

And I once spent a day in the British Library newspaper archive searching for the tabloid headline that Ray refers to. Alas, no such headline exists.

Still, it's a great tale!

Thanks for sharing your research, I didn't know the back story on that. Well, that's how Ray remembers it, anyway. I'm sure my memories have shifted a bit over the years, too.

I found this bit here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...n_Apollo_11_coverage

"Around midnight, a serious discussion on the ethics of the moon landing was held, with historian AJP Taylor and entertainer Sammy Davis Junior "forming a somewhat bizarre alliance in attacking manned space flights."[13] The show continued for longer than expected as the film Down to Earth was cancelled when NASA had brought forward their schedule by several hours, originally the moonwalk had been planned for 7am British time.[12][1]

There was also reactions from the public at Trafalgar Square, reactions from the then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Peter Sissons interviewing experts like Sir Bernard Lovell at Jodrell Bank."


So, I think it was Harold Wilson who was on David Frost that night.

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