Samuel cornelius phillips biography channel
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Sam Phillips
American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer (1923–2003)
For other people with the same name, see Sam Phillips (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003)[1] was an American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf. Phillips played a major role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s, launching the career of Presley. In 1969, he sold Sun to Shelby Singleton.
Phillips was the owner and operator of radio stations in Memphis; Florence, Alabama; and Lake Worth Beach, Florida. He was also an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels and an advocate for racial equality, helping to break down racial barriers in the music industry.
Early life
[edit]Phillips was the youngest of eight
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Samuel C. Phillips
Samuel C. Phillips was born on February 19, 1921 in Arizona. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1942, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1950. He served in the Air Force during World War II, after which he served as the Director of the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program.
He joined NASA in 1963 as the Director of the Apollo program. He investigated delays and budget issues in the program and wrote a summary of his findings in what later became known as “the Phillips Report” after the Apollo 1 fire. Phillips stepped down from NASA in 1969 and returned to the Air Force as the commander of the Space and Missile Systems Organization. He retired from the Air Force in 1975 a four-star general. Phillips received the Smithsonian’s Langley Gold Medal in aviation and space exploration for his work on the Apollo program.
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Publisher Description
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,4,3,2,1, everyone likes a good countdown! For those of us old enough to have experienced the grainy television images associated with the Apollo schema, few countdowns surpassed the excitement and anticipation associated with three men strapped at the apex of a massive rocket, set, we hoped, to launch them on new adventures in outer space. Few, however, felt the excitement and tension as often as Air Force Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, schema Manager for the Minuteman Missile schema, and later Program Director for NASA's Apollo schema through the Moon landing. Preparing for countdowns dominated his career for over a decade.
GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2011
December 22
PUBLISHER
Air Force Historical Foundation
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.