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...medals as his boss Reich Marshal Hermann Goring. He helped organize the Luftwaffe, probably did as much as any man in setting the pattern for aerial combat in World War II. Judged not guilty of war crimes and "non-concerned" about Naziism, he lived out his days quietly in Landsberg...
...Landsberg used six cameras and 39 engineers, cameramen, assistants and announcers. Total cost of the relay setup, which was built in six days: about $50,000-or $40,000 (and 23 weeks) less than A.T. & T. had estimated...
...main problem for Klaus Landsberg, 35, general manager of Los Angeles' KTLA, was circuits. Even A.T. & T., which supplies cross-country TV lines, said last month that there was not enough time to set up relays for the big show. Landsberg, who has been working with electronics for more than half his life, decided to try the 264-mile relay to Mt. Wilson anyway. Landsberg's daring plan...
...From Charleston Peak, 140 miles-the longest jump ever attempted-to a relay on unnamed Mt. X. To get 12,000 Ibs. of equipment to the peak, Landsberg borrowed a Marine Corps helicopter, which did the job in just 48 hours...
...Landsberg's circuit was ready days before the blast, but his big trouble began just before H-hour. The AEC's power supply at the test site failed, so the telecast switched to a camera on Charleston Peak. When the power on News Nob came on again, the cameras did not have enough warmup time to catch the explosion. Result: TV Announcer Fred Henry described the first three minutes from ten miles away, while cameras recorded it from a distance of 57 miles...