LBJ Engages in First Satellite Conversation
Shortly after its launch, AT&T Chairman Frederick Kappel, at Telstar headquarters in Andover, Maine, spoke with Vice President Lyndon Johnson in Washington in the first telephone conversation via satellite in history.
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