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On Last Word this week: Joseph Gavin who led the team that designed and built the lunar module that carried the first men to land on the moon. One of them - Buzz Aldrin - pays tribute. Also the Argentine Admiral Emilio Massera who presided over the systematic torture and killing of thousands of people and began the invasion of the Falkland Islands.. The African American soprano Shirley Verrett who overcame racial prejudice to become a celebrated operatic performer.. Professor Ehud Netzer the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of King Herod And Geoffrey Crawley the scientific journalist who exposed the world's longest running photographic hoax - the Cottingley fairies.
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