Mercury Seven or Original Seven, they are (front row, left to right)
Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., Donald K. “Deke” Slayton, John H.
Glenn Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, (back row) Alan B. Shepard Jr.,
Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
introduced America’s first astronauts to the press: The men
(above), all military test pilots, were carefully selected from
a group of 32 candidates to  take part in Project Mercury,
America’s first manned space program. NASA planned to
begin manned orbital flights in 1961. 

James Wade Hampton (July 9, 1936 – April 7, 2021)

(Fox News) – Actor James Hampton, best known as bugler
Hannibal Dobbs on “F Troop,”  (ABC) Caretaker in the
original “The Longest Yard” (1974) and the father in
“Teen Wolf,” (1984) has died at age 84.

The Hollywood Reporter, citing a family source, revealed
Hampton died at his home in Fort Worth, Texas due to
complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Hampton in “F Troop”  (1965-1967)

James Hampton in the 1979 film “The China Syndrome”

Tracy Stratford as seen in “Living Doll”, the 126th episode (season 5)
of the CBS television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Original air
date was November 1, 1963.

Tracy Allison Stratford was born January 19, 1955 in Los Angeles, Calif.

Tracy Stratford also appeared on TV’s Ben Casey (1961) and The
New Loretta Young Show (1962).

June Foray (born June Lucille Forer)
(September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017)

In 1960, June Foray provided the voice for Mattel‘s original “Chatty Cathy“ doll; capitalizing on this, Foray also voiced the malevolent
“Talky Tina” doll in the Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll“.

Telly Savalas with the Living Doll. 

On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne (above) won his first—and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the
director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

                                         (1907–1979)

ROSS SIMPSON