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====[http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/the-wrong-stuff-ed-dwight-story-john-f.html The Ed Dwight Story: John F. Kennedy's Crusade to Find and Promote a "Negro Astronaut"...]====
<blockquote>Had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated, one of the first men to walk on the moon might have been a negro astronaut deliberately picked by his administration to be part of the astronaut training programing because he was a black man.
The Kennedy Administration found their magic flying negro: the only problem was Dwight couldn’t pass the requirements to be an astronaut. From Phelps book, we learn Colonel Chuck Yeager was the one man who dared judge Ed Dwight by the content of his character instead of giving him an immediate, Kennedy Administration approved pass because of the advantageous color of his skin:
<blockquote>'''Dwight believes Kennedy’s death had everything to do with his doom as an astronaut candidate. “It was 100 percent the death of Kennedy,” he says. “Prior to Kennedy’s death I was living awfully high on the hog. I had a private secretary. I was sending out 5,000 press photographs a month, and I made 176 speeches the first year I was in [the astronaut training program at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.].” The Kennedy Administration tried to break away from the White-Protestant-male mold for its astronauts in the 1961 by including one black. (p. 56)'''</blockquote>
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