-extremely well researched & put together. “Earthrise” is video #23.

Apollo 8 Launch –
USA Radio feed synced with film
https://youtu.be/4MglwJuHID0
5:08

Dave Hollick: I hope you are enjoying the retired life. (I only find out what’s happening these days when Diane tells me what she sees on Facebook.)

The invitation to visit Arizona remains open, forever.

https://www.celebrateearthriseday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1998RadioInterviewRobertZimmerman-GenesisSideA-good.mp3

https://www.celebrateearthriseday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1998RadioInterviewRobertZimmerman-GenesisSideB-good.mp3

https://www.celebrateearthriseday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/003_GENESIS_APOLLO-8_CH00_ANDERS-FOREWORD.mp3

-Now that I have more time, I’ll try to locate the slides. They should be in one of the dozens of “Airequipt” slide-changer cartridges we have. I showed them in science-class in ’69, roughly 10-20 shots taken in rapid sequence of the launch itself + we took the facility Tour. (I’ll drop you line if I can locate them.)
The 8mm film is/was, like’ a 2-3 minute silent sequence, but as I mentioned, “missing in action” somewhere (hopefully in the house) never saw it projected, just on one of those table-top film editor/viewers.
(tangentially–also have some excellent, giant, prints of the Eclipse in Baja from 1991.)

Wayne: As far as the photographer is concerned (astronaut Bill Anders), the orientation in my book, and on his wall. As I wrote in Genesis, he saw the Earth as just another object in space, as was the Apollo capsule and the Moon, and he saw it coming out from the side of the Moon.

Wayne: The slides and 8mm film would possibly have some historical value. I personally would be interested in seeing them, as they would give one the perspective of an uninvolved viewer of the launch.

Not Hallmark, but this is pretty cool:

Apollo 8: USS Yorktown Christmas card
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum27/HTML/003833.html

Steve-
interesting factoids!

Don M: In January 1968 there were two Saturn 5 at the Cape. It appears that SA-502 for Apollo 6 had already rolled out to LC39A ready for launch in April. SA-503 for Apollo 8 was in the process of being stacked in the VAB, and stacking was complete in February. So I think you were standing next to Apollo 8.

Much more info here http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/satstg5.html and in Roger Bilstein’s excellent book “Stages to Saturn”.

Michael-
great factoid! (sad, but interesting)

Edward-
great factoids as well!

Cool site. Downloading the (1998) radio interview right now. Is that uploaded anywhere else? Never came across it at YouTube.

I was fortunate enough to have watched the launch of Apollo 8 = extremely exciting!
I’m going to have to dig up a December ’68 calendar–
– I think my brother and I got out school a day early for Christmas vacation, –massive snow storm in Michigan, we left at 5am (4 hours to south Detroit then I-75 all the way down. Didn’t stop snowing until we hit Indiana. My Mom & Dad took turns driving the station wagon [mom drove Indiana- it’s flat, dad drove the mountains] (with a fresh Christmas tree strapped to the roof + camper in-tow) straight to a campground outside of Tampa.
Basically only stopped for gas or a Stuckey’s for food and souvenirs . I want to say it took us about 34 hours. (Speed limit was 75 then) (My record is 28 hours by car, Grand Rapids, Mi to Tampa, lived there for a year in the ’80’s. Going through Atlanta before they finished the by-pass was always a mess.)
Distinctly remember the free Coca-Cola at the Georgia welcome station and the free orange juice at the Florida welcome station.

Camped in Tampa- day of the launch we left for Cape Kennedy at 5am., we just followed everyone else. (Was the launch around 8am?) Wound up in swampy area, built up with gravel, 2-3 (?) miles away. It was very sunny and clear, and everyone had their radio’s on and their camera’s ready. Then, 4,3,2,1… pause…..cheering of the crowd and then loud rumble sounds rolling in. Slow climb at first then it went faster & faster until it disappeared. Happened very quickly.

My Dad was clicking off pictures and my mom had an 8mm silent box camera. (have all the slides in the house somewhere, the 8mm film remains missing in action, only saw it once after it was developed.)
Can’t recall if we took the Tour that day, or came back the next day. Tour was a thrill unto itself. Fast-forward to Christmas Eve– we’re in a campground in Key West, watching the astronaut’s on a portable TV. (very cold that night, around 45-50 and very windy off the ocean.)

anyway… it was very exciting, and I’ll never forget it!
(I can’t believe, I’m as old as I am right now.)

On April 4, 1968, the Apollo 6 test flight was launched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Saturn_V_vehicles_and_launches

Unless there was a second Saturn V in the Vertical Assembly Building (later renamed Vehicle Assembly Building) at the time, you saw the Apollo 6 test vehicle. Although not as famous, it taught the engineers a thing or two, making the Apollo 8 flight safer.

Apollo 7, launched in October, used a Saturn 1B launch vehicle.

Congratulations on being so close to one of those wondrous rockets.

The time from the last lunar landing until the present day is about 46 years.

Don M: In January 1968 the VAB probably had two rockets inside, a Saturn 1B used on January 22 to give the Lunar Module its first orbital test, and a Saturn 5 flown unmanned on April 4 for the second unmanned test flight. Another Saturn 1B flew the first Apollo manned mission, Apollo 7, in October.

Thus, I doubt seriously that the rocket you saw was the Saturn 5 that launched Apollo 8.

I have always wondered which Apollo was powered by the Saturn.V that I saw. Maybe Apollo 8 ? Tho, ten months seems a bit long.