Hidden Figures

I went to see the movie Hidden Figures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/ on Sunday.  Wow, it was an amazing movie.  Just amazing.  Based on a true story https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062363596/hidden-figures.  The most amazing thing to me is what everyone I know who has seen the movie has said.  Well, two things they have said.  This is a wonderful, marvelous, inspiring movie.  But it was a piece of history that we did not know about. Why did we not know about this piece of history?  It is a shame we did not know this piece of history .

When the movie announced the Katherine G. Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I joined the applause in the audience.  It was awe-inspiring. 

You know the book will be on my reading list.

Spoiler alert:  Two scenes I especially love are when Dorothy Vaughn goes into the IBM computer room, where the IBM computer lies silent because the IBM techs cannot figure why it does not work, and changes a connection, and voilá.  Fact or poetic license? Do I care?  And when Ms. Vaughn gets a book on Fortran, learns it, and teaches her co-workers so they will be prepared to move into the computer world.