Did the Australian Prime Minister miss the moon landing?
600 million people watched the moon landing. Is it possible Prime Minister John Gorton wasn't one of them? A blog of real time discovery.
Here’s a weird fact. John Gorton, the Prime Minister of Australia at the time, didn’t get up for the moon landing. I do a weekly segment on ABC Brisbane talking about speeches dug up from 90 years of ABC archives, and this week it’s Prime Minister Gorton’s formal remarks following the Apollo XI landing. The …
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