You moron. The Astronaut Wives Club was a New York Times non-fiction bestseller! The book is filled with quotes from the actual astronauts wives themselves. There's even a quote from Rene Carpenter directly to Lily Koppel, the author, on why the wives' stories were never told until now. Whatever Rene is saying now, she clearly had no problem talking at length with Koppel. So did Betty Grissom, Jo Schirra and a bunch of the other wives. It's their story of the times, in their words.
As to the Carpenter kids, they weren't quoted in that Washington Post article, were they? You made that up. You fabricated a lie, although for what bizarre reason I can't imagine. In fact, the full description of the day of JFK's assassination Koppel notes that the families watched on TV at home and then got together for a memorial barbecue. So, no falsehood in the book after all.
Someone who actually lived the story is a lot more reliable than the storyteller.
False. When Stephen Ambrose was compiling oral histories for his various books on WWII, he found that the recollections of war veterans were highly inaccurate. He made a specific point of fact-checking their stories against official records, and found that often their recollections contradicted those of other men in their own unit, let alone the Army's carefully compiled war logs. If you bomb Bastogne on a certain day there's generally going to be thousands of eyewitnesses that it happened that day, no matter if Uncle Ed says it was a different day and he was on that mission, goddamnit!
What makes accurate history is a neutral historical author using multiple sources to compile a truthful account of events...which is what Lily Koppel has done.
Now, go stick your head in a wood-chipper and stop posting BS here.
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