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[above] Photo of the Bickers family gathered around the black & white television on the evening of July 20, 1969 in our home in Memphis, Tennessee.  On the left is my brother, William, then me holding our dog, Tiger, and on the other side of the TV is my sister, Linda and my mother, Alice Fay.  My father, Robert Bickers Sr. took the picture. My father took a number of pictures of us watching the Apollo 11 moon walk, but when he got a good image of the people, the TV screen was overexposed and blank.  When he got a good image of the TV, the people came out too dark.  Eventually my mother kept the pictures of the people and many years later I added the image of the moon walk to accurately portray what was actually on the screen when we posed for this picture.  [right] A picture of my father taken in 1971.

                                                                                   -- Bob Bickers

PS - The photo above was included in a post by science writer Alan Boyle on MSNBC’s Cosmic Log on July 20, 2009. The article concerned a contest on memorable personal stories surrounding the Apollo 11 moon landing.  I won that contest when I submitted my family photo and personal account of that day in 1969.  Here is the whole article that gave me my 15 minutes of internet fame. For years the Bickers family photo popped up at many sites on the Internet as an icon of that moment in history.