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Letter, Lyndon Johnson to George Reedy. March 8, 1962. 1962 Subject File. Science—Space and Aeronautics. [Women in Space] The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
“Memo on requested meeting with the Vice President.” March 7, 1962. Papers of Lyndon B. Johnson. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Jerrie Cobb to Jacqueline Cochran. March 8, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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“Senate Wife Could Be First Woman in Space.” Sunday Star, March 11, 1962. 1962 Subject File. Science—Space and Aeronautics. [Women in Space] The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
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Letter, Catherine Smith to Lyndon Johnson. March 15, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
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Letter, Sue Ann Winkelman to Lyndon Johnson. March 21, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Rachel D. Jones to Lyndon Johnson. March 13, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
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Letter, A. Bachelor to Lyndon Johnson. March 15, 1962. Papers of Lyndon B. Johnson. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
“Background for your conference at 11am.” March 14, 1962. Papers of Lyndon B. Johnson. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
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Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Jacqueline Cochran. March 5, 1958. United States Senate, 1949–1961. “Master File” Index. Cla-Cle–Coe-Cok. Box 37. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Jacqueline Cochran. April 13, 1962. 1962 Subject File. Science—Space and Aeronautics. [Women in Space] The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Jerrie Cobb to James Webb. March 30, 1962. Courtesy of Francis French.
“Moon Flight and Women.” Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. Articles Series. Box 8. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
News clipping enclosed in Letter, Roy Marshall to Lyndon Johnson. November 21, 1965. White House Central File Name File. Box 22. Folder: Odlum, A–K. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jerrie Cobb. March 23, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Myrtle Thompson Cagle. March 29, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jan Dietrich. March 29, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Bernice Steadman. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Marion Dietrich. March 29, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Mary Wallace Funk. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Sara Lee Gorelick. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jane B. Hart. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jean Hixson. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Rhea Hurrle. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Irene Leverton. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Bernice Steadman. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Floyd Odlum to Randy Lovelace. March 29, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Lyndon Johnson. March 26, 1962. 1962 Subject File. Science—Space and Aeronautics. [Women in Space] The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Olin Teague. April 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jane Rieker. April 12, 1962. (Note: sub letter to Jane Nash attached). Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jane Rieker. June 6, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Jane Nash. April 2, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Olin Teague to Jacqueline Cochran. April 26, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Robert Pirie to Jacqueline Cochran. April 30, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Hugh Dryden to Jacqueline Cochran. April 26, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Robert Gilruth to Jacqueline Cochran. April 27, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Walt Willams to Jacqueline Cochran. April 27, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Randy Lovelace to Floyd Odlum. April 24, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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Letter, Gene Nora Stumbough to Jacqueline Cochran. June 11, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jerrie Cobb to James Webb, March 30, 1962. Courtesy of Francis French.
Letter, Jerrie Cobb to Lyndon Johnson. April 17, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Jerrie Cobb. April 23, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 183. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
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Interoffice Communication from Miss Walsh to Miss Cochran “Women Astronauts” March 20, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 140. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Victor Anfuso. April 21, 1961. Johnson Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 2. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Antionio Ambrosini. April 6, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 181. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Victor Anfuso. February 28, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 2. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Victor Anfuso. January 10, 1962. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 2. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Janey Hart. June 15, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to James Webb. June 15, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Hugh Dryden. June 18, 1962. Cochran, Jacqueline folder. NASA Archives.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Curtis Le May. June 16, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Robert Pirie. July 11, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
“Copies of Statement No. 1 Went to.” undated (July 1962) Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Hugh Dryden to Jacqueline Cochran. June 26, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, James Webb to Jacqueline Cochran. July 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Robert Gilruth to Jacqueline Cochran. June 26, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Randy Lovelace to Jacqueline Cochran. June 29, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Janey Hart to Jacqueline Cochran. June 22, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Richard Hines to Jacqueline Cochran. July 9, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Jerrie Cobb to Myrtle Thompson Cagle. Undated. Courtesy of the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Victor Anfuso. July 11, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
“Lunar Orbit Rendezvous News Conference on Apollo Plans at the NASA Headquarters on July 11, 1962.” Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. Scrapbook Series. Box 4. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Ertel, Ivan D. and Mary Louise Morse. The Apollo Spacecraft, Volume I Through November 7, 1962. The NASA Historical Series. Office of Technology Utilization, NASA. Washington, DC, 1969.
“NASA Outlines Apollo Plans.” Transcript. NASA News Release. July 11, 1962 NASA MSC, Houston, Texas.
Letter, Jacqueline Cochran to Ric
hard Hines. July 24, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 139. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Interoffice Communication from Miss Schroeder to Miss Cochran. July 12, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Myrtle Thompson Cagle to Jacqueline Cochran. August 8, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 140. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Letter, Marion Dietrich to Jacqueline Cochran. August 7, 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 140. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
“Women in Space Washington Trip.” July 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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“Women in Space Washington Trip.” July 1962. Jacqueline Cochran: Papers, 1932–1975. General Files Series. Box 138. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
“Women Pilots Make Bid For a Chunk of Space.” New York Herald Tribune, July 18, 1962.
Ackmann, Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight.
Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on the Selection of Astronauts, July 17 and 18, 1962. US Government Printing Office. Washington: 1962.
Cobb and Rieker, Woman into Space: The Jerrie Cobb Story.
Letter, Lyndon Johnson to Senator James G. Fulton. November 13, 1961. Vice President, 1961–1963. Box 116. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
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Telegram, Jerrie Cobb to Myrtle Thompson Cagle, July 18, 1962. Courtesy of the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.
“Lady Fliers Ask to be Astronauts, too; Plead for Co-Eds in Space.” Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, July 18, 1962.
“Give Us Space Role, Women Pilots Urge.” Chicago Tribune, July 18, 1962.
“Women Pilots Make Bid For a Chunk of Space.” New York Herald Tribune, July 18, 1962.
“Women Fliers Try to Crack Barriers on Space Travel.” Washington Post, July 18, 1962.
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