The Chicago Sun-Times published an article Friday that, as the title implies, covered the moon landing fifty years ago and featured suburban stories including this one from Barrington Hills:
“Anxiety was certainly felt at the Barrington Hills home of the Trude family, where Alfred S. Trude and his four children, Jack — celebrating his 11th birthday — Mike, Sherry and Patty sat watching. Trude’s wife was in Houston with her sister, Jan Armstrong, married to the astronaut.
‘We were all pretty nervous,’ Alfred Trude said. ‘Nobody was breathing when Neil made that last step down to the moon. But then everybody relaxed, and the boys really got a kick out of all that bouncing up and down on the moon.’”
Read the full Sun-Times account of 50 years ago here.
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