Tevi Troy on Reagan’s Challenger Speech at 35

On the 35th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, historian and author Tevi Troy talks about Reagan’s Challenger Speech: A Four-Minute Window into Presidential Greatness.

I’ll never forget where I was when I heard the Challenger had exploded: Mr. Thornton’s class at Middletown Middle School in Maryland. People my parent’s age used to always say that they remembered where they were when they heard John F. Kennedy was shot. For my generation, this was our version of that: the end of the innocence. What is more, because the…