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Funding pulled for Dr. Gerald Bull's High Altitude Research Project

Dr. Gerald Bull was like a figure in a spy novel, designing arms for some of the world's harshest regimes. With no shortage of possible enemies, he died at the hands of an unknown assassin. But the Canadian-born artillery expert was also a brilliant scientist with a dream: to launch a satellite with a giant gun.

Gerald Bull's High Altitude Research Project is thrown into jeopardy.
Medium: Radio
Program: Soundings
Broadcast Date: Oct. 4, 1967
Guest(s): Gerald Bull, C.M. Drury, Tony Patterson, Arthur Porter, Robert Stacey
Host: Ray Aston
Reporter: Gordon Mesley
Duration: 26:50

Last updated: February 8, 2012

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