Conrad and Barron Hilton with John Glenn, 1968

Conrad and Barron Hilton with John Glenn, 1968

Hilton, Conrad N. (Conrad Nicholson), 1887-1979

Glenn, John, 1921-

Black and white photograph depicting (from left to right) Conrad N. Hilton, chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels Corporation, former astronaut John Glenn, Dr. Wernher von Braun, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama, and Barron Hilton, president of Hilton Hotels Corporation. These four men posed in front of a full-scale model of the Apollo 7, which at that moment was circling the globe and had been set up in the Waldorf=Astoria lobby as part of the 19th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation.

Wagner International Photos

1968-10-22

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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present

1960 - 1969

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