nobody knew that better than frank gorman, point man in the apollo 1 investigation.a tapped him for the latest mission. >> i was called back, will you volunteer to take apollo 8 to the moon? i said, yes, we would be happy to. >> we were sort of at the last minute, several months before we were scheduled to launch. but that's what we were being asked to do. so ours was not the reason why, it was to do or die. >> reporter: do or die not just for the three astronauts. it was 1968, ending with a disaster it could end america's lunar quest for good. >> it certainly occurred to me that if the flight wasn't successful, it would be a monumental failure. >> reporter: they launched from cape kennedy center in florida. just over two and a half hours later, the crew was given permission to become the first humans to leave earth orbit. using a state of the art computer which had 1/13th the memory of a modern calculator. they fired the third stage and sent them hurling on the three-day journey to the moon. >> what does the old moon like? >> the moon is essentially gray, no color.

and a nod internally, that gorman essentially says it and probably announces that he will be president. i think that will happen in 2015. ipos to watch in 2015, first data, frankiness ig nano, former jpmorgan guy. you know, i think he spins that out of kkr. that's going to be a big ipo not because of size, a lot of moving parts. and uber, i think, good shot it comes public x. i'm going to go out on a limb with this. i didn't say this, tell your producers this, so if they can put a picture of hank greenberg up there if they don't have to scramble too much, i think hank greenberg is going to win. liz: you just totally changed on a dime. >> i did. liz: i was saying i thought he may have the chance -- >> i said 50/50. liz: why are you now tipping to this side? >> i'm adding it all up. liz: when you say "win," you mean against the u.s. government who he argues as the largest shareholder of aig illegally seized assets out of -- >> basically, took the company away from the shareholders illegally and presented the shareholders during the financial crisis with a sort of take it or leave it thing which they had no chance to react to. if you look at the case, the judge i

but among them are and were john lewis, frank smith, bob ruby ray robinson, diana nash, james gorman almost carmichael, -- james forman, stokley carmichael, ivanhoe, donaldson richardson, lafayette and the reverend jesse jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. all of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the civil rights movement. years later, here in washington when marion and i had different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. he laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d.c. girl of from soup south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, "you have come a long way from picking cotton in mississippi to running the mission's capital -- nation's capital go." [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr., well. he challenged poverty by working himself out of it. coming from the cotton fields of mississippi, he said, "i was used to hard work. it does not bother me." that is what he wrote in his autobiography. but it w