Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes
I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody. I'm going to find out what you're up to. I'm going to expose you." "Looking forward to it.
Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, Hush. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
NASA was trying to avoid embarrassment and obfuscated a great deal of the information around the Challenger disaster. The NASA Administration established a technical scientific staff to do the technical investigation and report to the commissioners. However Feynman, a great scientist and mathematician, did his own analyses and calculations and even data collection and discovered that his results did bot comport with that of NASA or the commission staff which generally accepted the NASA data and analysis. It turned out that Feynman was right and he was able to expose the truth that NASA management had been responsible for the disaster for not paying attention to the data and recommendations to postpone the launch that existed.
Wallace was a white, Jewish journalist who was interviewing African American Minister Louis Farrakhan , leader of the Black Muslims on 60 Minutes. Farrakhan's view about whites, his anti-Semitism and animosity toward journalists were on the record and not disguised. This opening of the interview caught Minister Farrakhan by surprise and even with his animosity, he could not help breaking out in a large grin at Wallace's audacity.
Becca Fitzpatrick is an American author, best known for having written the New York Times bestseller Hush, Hush.