Bob Nelson

But Guy was another matter.

Bob said he was devastated that Guy didn't remember their talk in the Montreal airport.

He wondered if it was possible that Guy had repressed the memory.

Then I spoke to him a few days later, and he offered this take.

Yeah.

I mean, when you talked about it, it sounded so vivid.

You know, you remember it like being in the sandwich shop.

To be clear, Guy says he never heard from Bob at all.

No visit, no phone call, nothing.

I'm just wondering if when you look at that memory, that seems like it was a faulty memory, if it gives you any pause and makes you wonder whether there are other parts of this set of memories that you have that may also not be totally trustworthy.

Well, such as Terry Harris.

But don't you think that there might be a reason why it would be important for you to believe that you went out and had those conversations with them face to face?

What's clear is that Bob's convinced he did right by Terry and Guy, and Terry and Guy are equally convinced that he didn't.

If it sounds like Bob is harder on Terry than he is on Guy, there's one more thing you have to understand.

When the truth about the two failed capsules and the nine bodies in the vault finally came to light, when all those hard decisions Bob had made on the fly became sound bites on the 10 o'clock news, there wasn't just a public reckoning.

There was a trial.

Terry and his brother were two of the plaintiffs.

And they won, to the tune of $800,000.

The half they actually collected came out of mortician Joe Clockheather's malpractice insurance.

In 1979, the Harris brothers flew out to California to meet an attorney who led them to the vault at Chatsworth along with a local TV news team.