Yvette Gentile
speaker
1,893 appearances
22 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Yvette Gentile’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And a precursor to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
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So Congress was less than pleased with Kennedy.
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Which is why on May twenty fifth, nineteen sixty one, he called a session to take accountability for his screw ups.
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Kennedy knew he needed to do something drastic to save face.
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Moreover, his presidency.
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So during this meeting, he publicly announced a bold new program.
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He said by January 1st, 1970, Americans would put a citizen on the moon.
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And they'd be the very first nation to do
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When the Apollo program began, it opened a lot of doors and created new opportunities that hadn't existed before.
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Just take the story of Catherine Johnson.
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Most of us know about her because of the incredible 2017 film Hidden Figures with Taraji P.
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Henson.
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Catherine was an amazing mathematician.
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People nicknamed her the human computer because she was so good with complicated formulas.
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In 1937, she graduated at the top of her class after.
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Majoring in Mathematics at West Virginia State College.
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But, as brilliant as Catherine was, there was a problem she couldn't solve.
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Catherine lived in a time of intense discrimination against women and people of color.
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In spite of her amazing qualifications, she was limited because of her identity.
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Her first job after college was as a school teacher because that's all that was available to her.
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