Sample of Network TV Coverage During the Apollo Program Jim McDade 2013-07-15 | This is a brief sample of the state of US television network coverage of the US space program in 1969. This video sample is for educational and instructional purposes only.
Opening the Helen Anderson Designed John Lennon Mariner’s Cap from HELP! Jim McDade 2024-03-19 | A birthday present made by John Lennon’s Liverpool College of Art classmate and dear friend Helen Anderson from my loving wife Ann
A Tunnel Ride Beneath the Mersey Jim McDade 2024-02-16 | Talking Beatles while crossing underneath the Mersey River to Liverpool, England. August 2023.
Roag Best, half-brother of Beatles drummer Pete Best Jim McDade 2023-10-25 | Roag relates how his mom Mona pawned her jewels and used the money from that to bet on a long shot horse named “Never Say Die” and won the money to buy the Liverpool house in Hayman’s Green where she opened the Casbah Club. The Casbah Club was the Beatles launch pad to popularity.
Recreating the opening of A Hard Day’s Night.🤣 Jim McDade 2023-10-20 | During our journey to a session at Abbey Road Studios
Recreating the opening of A Hard Day’s Night Jim McDade 2023-10-20 | During our journey to a session at Abbey Road Studios
A Hard Days Fall For Old Guys Recreating a Famous Beatles Scene Jim McDade 2023-09-06 | Being Beatles fans, we attempted to recreate the opening sequence of A Hard Day's Night and our "George" took a worse tumble on the uneven Liverpool Marylebone Station sidewalk stones than the actual George Harrison did in the 1964 hit movie. Don't worry, Faux George is physically OK now, although doing a take 2 was out of the question with him limping, bleeding, and all. ;-) BTW- I'm the fellow wearing the light colored slacks. Thanks to Ann McDade for shooting this video clip and Charles Rosenay of Liverpool Productions for making this possible. Remember, ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...and a passport, credit cards, an anti-RFID wallet, a smartphone, good shoes, and a first aid kit!
Artemis I Launch Digital Audio Jim McDade 2022-11-21 | My recording of the launch of Artemis I made at the Launch Complex 39 Turn Basin on November 16, 2022. Play it LOUD!
FALCON 9 INTELSAT G31/G32Galaxy 31, 32 launch Jim McDade 2022-11-12 | Cellphone video of FALCON 9 INTELSAT G31/G32 Galaxy 31, 32 geostationary communications satellites launch at 11:06 AM, as seen from where we are in Cocoa Beach. Most of the people playing on the beach appeared to be unaware that a launch was happening at the time.
SNAIL EATS PAPER! Jim McDade 2022-06-14 | Video captured by Shannon McDade, produced by Jim McDade. Snail Trainer: Jimmy McDade. Paper Chef: Ann McDade
Charlie Duke On The Apollo 11 Landing Jim McDade 2022-04-22 | Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke was the capsule communicator during the intense Apollo 11 lunar landing, a landing that was delayed while Armstrong searched for an unobstructed landing spot in the Moon’s dry and rocket Sea of Tranquility.
Walter: No Computer Animation, No Teleprompter Needed Jim McDade 2022-03-14 | Walter didn’t need no stinkin’ computer animations. He had models and possessed studied knowledge about the topic he was reporting.
SATURN WALK US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER Jim McDade 2022-02-07 | WALKING THE FULL LENGTH OF THE SATURN V ON DISPLAY AT THE UNITED STATES SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA. IT'S NOT A SHORT WALK!
THIN MAN & GERALD WILSON ON WHHY Jim McDade 2021-09-16 | Air check from early 1970sVideo ends at 4:10
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Lab Jim McDade 2020-02-13 | Dr. Bill Emrich, who was named 2015 Engineer of the Year by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics a few years ago, provides an introduction to the history of NASA nuclear rocket research to our group at Marshall Spaceflight Center on Monday. Emrich is standing in front of an enormous test bed at the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Lab. Oddly enough, a ride to Mars aboard a nuclear rocket actually reduces the radiation exposure level to astronauts because a nuclear rockets much shorter than conventional rocket transit time to Mars means that the exposure to natural space radiation is much, much lower. Traveling to Mars by nuclear thermal propulsion might very week turn out to be much kess expensive than using slower conventional rockets.Sorry about that “nuclear buzz” heard during this video.#NASA_Marshall
Apollo 11 Fiftieth Launch Anniversary Jim McDade 2019-07-17 | Interview with British singer -songwriter David Giles.
Painting the Saturn V Jim McDade 2019-03-11 | Worker rolls on a fresh coat of paint for the Saturn V replica at the USSRC in Huntsville.
Saturn V Walk Jim McDade 2019-03-11 | Strolling from one end to the other of the Saturn V located at the USSRC.
WABT: THE WORST RADIO STATION IN HISTORY Jim McDade 2018-09-27 | Poor Reid Spann having a very bad day at Montgomery’s worst radio station ever. He had been repeatedly harassed on the air by a hostile caller, but the real thing that bothered him was the idiocy of the people who owned this AM station. Those owners had asked Reid to edit all electric guitar solos out of the Top 40 songs and to play only what they called “peppy music”. The records the hapless owners wanted on the playlist were mostly pure schlock that no listeners could stand to listen to, so WABT was very short-lived and largely forgotten. The owners hired me to do a show, but I quickly realized that the place was a lost cause, so I moved on to the PBS affiliate network.
JD versus Huffman - November 1972, Part 2 Jim McDade 2018-09-25 | The sounds of high school football in 1972
JD versus Huffman, November 1972 -Part 1 Jim McDade 2018-09-25 | The sounds of high school football in 1972
1974 Black Muslim Takeover of WAPX RADIO Jim McDade 2018-09-25 | Recorded originally by Jim McDade. From AL.COM:40 years ago, group of karate-kicking Black Muslims take over radio station, cause shootout that changes Montgomery historyUpdated Oct 10, 2014;Posted Oct 10, 2014Erin EdgemonMONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Forty years ago, a small group of Black Muslims embarked on a crime spree in the city of Montgomery that made headlines for months and still resonates in the capital city's memory.The spree culminated on Oct. 12, 1974 with the shooting death of retired Montgomery Police Officer M.E. Furr and the takeover of R&B radio station WAPX on Dexter Avenue, according to Montgomery Advertiser reports and witness accounts.Three men held the radio disc jockey and secretary hostage for more than two hours that Saturday morning and engaged in a gun battle that eventually involved 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers.The three men spread their message over the radio waves for about 45 minutes until the transmitter was turned off. They called for Montgomery's black community to join them in a "revolution," the Advertiser reported.Back then, Montgomery police had no heavy weaponry or bullet-resistant vests, and the department was only beginning to form a SWAT team.Officers hid behind cars and mattresses while trading shots with the hostage-takers. They were even told to bring guns and ammunition from home.The gunfire continued until the hostages, Al Dixon Jr. and Gloria Gilmer, managed to escape and the three men inside the station surrendered.The crime events started that day at around 9:15 a.m. when five men were seen karate-kicking parking meters downtown, according to reports. Then, without provocation, they slashed the face of 78-year-old Aldron Parham with a machete.Assistant Police Chief Roy Houlton witnessed the situation and fired shots on the men. At that same time, Furr, who was working security at H.L. Green downtown, came out of the department store after hearing the commotion. Two of the men grabbed him and fatally shot him in the back, the Advertiser reported.The five men jumped into a car to race away, but didn't get far. Police Detective Jimmy Lisenby heard Houlton call for backup, spotted the fleeing car and rammed it head on.Three of the men ran up Lawrence Street, circled around the Alabama Power Co. building on Washington Street and then ran back down to Dexter and into WAPX radio station, the Advertiser reported. The other men disappeared.Implicated in the crime events that day were Arthur Lewis, Reginald Robinson and Julius Davis. They were also charged in the fatal shooting of a Delchamps store clerk in downtown Montgomery on Oct. 9, 1974.Charged with related crimes were Charles Williams, Alphonso Davis and Amos Williams.Lewis is serving a life sentence at Fountain Correctional Facility and is eligible for parole, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The rest of the men have served time and been released from prison.On this 40th anniversary of the crimes that some say profoundly changed Montgomery law enforcement and politics, AL.com reached out to former lawmen, radio DJ's and regular citizens, asking for their accounts and memories of the day.Here is a sampling of the responses:Brian Bodine, now of Orange Beach, was a detective with the Montgomery Police Department at the time.He said he was mowing the lawn when the phone rang. "My wife handed me the corded phone out the door," Bodine said.The caller -- he doesn't remember who it was - told him to report to Dexter Avenue and bring all the guns and ammunition he had.Bodine lived in Millbrook then, and without Interstate 65 it took him about 30-40 minutes to get to downtown. Arriving, he saw a perimeter had been set up about a block from Dexter Avenue. He'd brought a shotgun, rifle, two pistols and boxes of bullets and shells.After arming and resupplying other officers, he moved his way to the front of the radio station, where he was shielded by a pickup truck.Behind a nearby mattress, he said, were Montgomery Police Chief Ed Wright and Montgomery County Sheriff M.S. Butler.The sound of a single gunshot on Dexter Avenue, he said, ignited a barrage of gunfire from both the hostage-takers and the officers outside. "The chief was trying to make demands behind the mattress. But when the shots fired out, that is when all bets were off," he said.After it was all over, Bodine was a part of the investigative team that went into the station. "You couldn't put your hand on the wall that you didn't touch a bullet hole," he said. "It is hard to believe that they would survive."Investigators learned that the gunmen were protecting themselves by retreating to a back courtyard, where they had their hostages.Bodine retired from the Alabama Criminal Information Center in 2001.--Montgomery native Jeff Blake was 16 years old at the time and was "a radio freak," he said. Cruising around town in his mother's car, switching through the
USS Enterprise “Fly-around” Jim McDade 2018-09-14 | A video tour of the restored USS Enterprise studio model from the original Star Trek television series. iPhone video by Jim McDade at the Smithsonian NASM.
David Brinkley Blasts Space Exploration. Grrrr! Jim McDade 2018-03-27 | Commentator David Brinkley of NBC News criticizes space spending even as Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger was on it's way to the rendezvous with mothership America following NASA'S final Apollo lunar surface expedition on the evening of December 17, 1972.
