Videos--People, Places and Things
On this page, you can find interesting interviews, videos and additional content.
Interviews with Local Pilots
Jim Zerkel B-47 pilot
Interview with Webb City resident Jim Zerkel about his life as a young boy learning to fly in Ft. Wayne Indiana. Later graduating from West Point Military Academy and going on to a distinguished Air Force military career. Starting his basic military training in a North Ameican T-6 Texan and progressing through the Mitchell B-25, the Lockheed T-33 and finally flying the Boeing B-47 for the Strategic Air Command. Involved in planning the B-47’s role in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Step son-in-law of Colonel Travis Hoover a member of Jimmy DoLittle’s W.W. II B-25 raiders. Interviewed by Boyce Mouton.
Hang gliding in Cardin
Oklahoma
Interview with Webb City resident Jim Zerkel about his life as a young boy learning to fly in Ft. Wayne Indiana. Later graduating from West Point Military Academy and going on to a distinguished Air Force military career. Starting his basic military training in a North Ameican T-6 Texan and progressing through the Mitchell B-25, the Lockheed T-33 and finally flying the Boeing B-47 for the Strategic Air Command. Involved in planning the B-47’s role in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Step son-in-law of Colonel Travis Hoover a member of Jimmy DoLittle’s W.W. II B-25 raiders. Interviewed by Boyce Mouton.
Interesting Videos
The Last Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery
Voyager’s visit to Neptune.
The Last Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery
