A 14-year-old audience member hitchhiked solo from Orlando to Cape Kennedy in 1969 to witness the Apollo 11 launch, and was taken in by an Apollo contractor he met at JFK airport.
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In a brief interstitial, an audience member recalls the most daring thing he ever did as a teenager: hitchhiking alone from Orlando to Titusville, Florida to watch the Apollo 11 launch in July 1969. Carrying a sign reading 'To the moon, Cape Kennedy or bust,' he was spotted at JFK airport by Arthur C. Johnson, a Titusville resident who worked for an Apollo contractor. Johnson invited the boy into his home for four days, resulting in a front-page newspaper story and an unforgettable front-row view of one of humanity's greatest adventures. The speaker describes it as the only time in his life he watched history being made — a memory that hasn't dimmed in nearly 50 years.
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