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Want the apollo eight story unfold and you realize even in a dark year like 1968 some good came out of it. >> so you're saying you have to watch from start to finish, right? because you're going to see all that led up to that. >> the drama -- even for people that remember 1968, you will be surprised. you will have forgotten the collusion between the nixon campaign and the south vietnamese that affected the election. you will have forgotten how close that election was, and you would have forgotten the beauty and the poetry and sadness of martin luther king and the funeral that followed. >> that...

It was a tough year. >> is it overstating it to make parallels between '68 and the division we have in the country today? >> it is not stretching it. we don't know where the division, the anxiety of today will take us. but the country was divided, the country was fighting with itself. there was a lot of hatred in 1968. there was a lot of concern about our future, and there were a lot of people that didn't like the social and cultural changes that had occurred. feminism, they didn't like the civil rights changes. they wanted to move back to a different period. that was the national dialogue in ...

Apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moon's gravity. the astronauts have now truly left the earth and its gravity. for this second telecast, turned apollo 8 so it faces the earth. here is communications coming through. >> you're seeing the atmosphere, i can see the southwestern part of the united states and it appears now that the east coast is cloudy. >> apollo 8 around christmas 1968 showed us the creators of the moon and space at the same time. they spoke to us and read the book of genesis. >> the waters under the heavens be together in one place and let the d...

Three, two, one, zero. we have liftoff. clear the tower. >> there is the rumble in the building. it looks good. this building is shaking under us. a camera platform is shaking but what a beautiful flight. we interrupt this program to present another in a series of unborn television transmissions from the space capsule brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink. apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moon's gravity. the astronauts have now truly left the earth and its gravity. for this second telecast, turned apollo 8 so it faces the earth. here is communications c...

Other. with the spacecraft on the top with three guys on it. and you knew that that sucker was going someplace. it had a purpose in mind and it was going someplace. >> you get to december of 1968 and frank and bill anders have been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the lunar landing apollo program. >> the countdown to liftoff for apollo eight is t minus 50 minutes and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn five, the largest rocket man has ever built and it has the explosive potential in its fuel of ...