Source Notes

Chapter 14: Socio-Economic Problems On the Space Coast

  1. 1. Petrone interview, 25 May 1972, pp. 62-68. Petrone discussed the difference between the industrial and construction workers in a sympathetic and understanding way.

  2. 2. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Investigations, Hearings on Work Stoppages at Missile Bases, 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 25 Apr.-9 June 1961.

  3. 3. Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 11-15, 36-46.

  4. 4. The John F. Kennedy Space Center Missile Site Labor Relations Committee, "Function Responsibilities and Procedure," p. 1.

  5. 5. Glenn M. Parker, "The Missile Site Labor Commission," ILR Research 8 (1962): 11.

  6. 6. John Miraglia, "Project Stabilization Agreement," pp. 1-2.

  7. 7. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Investigations, Hearings on Work Stoppages at Missile Bases, 87th Cong., 1st sess., pt. 2, 4 May 1961, pp. 520 ff.

  8. 8. Yates interview.

  9. 9. Edward Kiffmeyer, Labor Relations Off., AFETR, "Strike Summary Reports," Patrick Air Force Base, FL, monthly reports from Jan. 1962-July 1965; History of Air Force Missile Test Center, vol. 1, 1964, p. 166.

  10. 10. Spaceport News, 6 Feb. 1964.

  11. 11. Melbourne Daily Times, 18 Feb. 1964.

  12. 12. Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 1964.

  13. 13. Charles L. Buckley, Jr., Chief, Security Off., memo for record, "FEC Incident, MILA," 1 Feb. 1964.

  14. 14. Cocoa Tribune, 10 Feb. 1964.

  15. 15. Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 1964.

  16. 16. Melbourne Daily Times, 18 Feb. 1964.

  17. 17. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia, 14 Feb. 1964.

  18. 18. Orlando Sentinel, 19, 28 Feb. 1964.

  19. 19. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia, 22 Apr. 1964.

  20. 20. Ibid.

  21. 21. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia, 3 June 1964.

  22. 22. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia, 11 June 1964; Titusville Star-Advocate, 10 June 1964.

  23. 23. Paul Styles, Dir., Off. of Labor Relations, memo, 9 June, 1964, copy in files of KSC Security Office; Miami Herald, 19 June 1964, p. 2; Gooch interview; Horner interview.

  24. 24. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia (signed by Oliver E. Kearns), 25 June 1964.

  25. 25. Ibid.; History of the Air Force Missile Test Center, vol. 1, 1964, pp. 159, 165.

  26. 26. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia, 16 Sept. 1964.

  27. 27. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia (signed by Oliver E. Kearns), 23 July, 20 Aug., 2 Sept. 1964.

  28. 28. Ibid., 10 Sept. 1964. Several contractor representatives who dealt with labor matters shared Kearn's view of Baxley.

  29. 29. Ibid., 16 Sept. 1964.

  30. 30. Cocoa Tribune, 14 Sept. 1965.

  31. 31. KSC Weekly Notes, Kearns, 22 Sept. 1965; Orlando Sentinel, 17 Sept. 1965.

  32. 32. Cocoa Tribune, 4 Oct. 1965.

  33. 33. Time, 4 July 1969, p. 38.

  34. 34. George L. Simpson, Jr., to Webb and Dryden, 25 June 1965.

  35. 35. Annie May Hartsfield, Mary Alice Griffin, and Charles M. Grigg, eds., Summary Report NASA Impact on Brevard County (Tallahassee: Institute of Social Research, Florida State Univ., 1966), pp. 10-11, table 2, p. 21, citing U.S. census reports.

  36. 36. Ibid., pp. 13, 52.

  37. 37. Ibid., pp. 104, 106, 107.

  38. 38. Ibid., pp. 17, 18, 26, 96.

  39. 39. Charles Grigg and Wallace A. Dynes, Selected Factors in the Deceleration of Social Change in a Rapidly Growing Area (Tallahassee, 1966), table 3, p. 144.

  40. 40. Spaceport News, 16 May 1963, p. 6.

  41. 41. Ibid., 13 June 1963, p. 3.

  42. 42. Ibid., 14 May, 9 July 1964. Sixteen thousand individuals, 56% of the total work force, responded to the questionnaires.

  43. 43. Siebeneichen interview.

  44. 44. Peter Dodd, Social Change in Space-Impacted Communities (Cambridge, MA: The Committee on Space of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Aug. 1964), pp. 20-21.

  45. 45. KSC Weekly Notes, Miraglia, 22 Apr., 27 May 1964.

  46. 46. 46. KSC Weekly Notes, Van Staden, 7-Apr. 1965.

  47. 47. Spaceport News, 20 Aug. 1964.

  48. 48. Ibid., 1 July 1965.

  49. 49. Florida Statistical Abstract, 1969 (Gainesville: Univ. of Florida, 1969), pp. 21, 28.

  50. 50. Spaceport News, 29 Feb. 1968.

  51. 51. Time, 4 July 1969, p. 38.

  52. 52. Quoted in John G. Rogers, "What Life at Cape Kennedy Does to Marriage," Parade, 9 July 1969.

  53. 53. Dr. Ronald C. Erbs, M.D., to Faherty, 17 July 1974, in author's personal files.

  54. 54. Nazaro interview.

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