Sample Interview Questions for Bill Tolbert

Sample Questions for Bill Tolbert:

1. The story in the book, Threads of Honor centers around a Boy Scout troop in Colorado of which you were the scoutmaster. Tell us how you came to be to scoutmaster of this group of boys.

2. Then you wanted to get a troop flag, and you wanted it to be something special. Tell us that story.

3. How did the idea of getting this flag to go up in a space shuttle get started?

4. Was this a hard thing to accomplish—to get the flag on a shuttle mission?

5. Then you gave up at one point. Why did you give up? And why did you decide to try again?

6. Was it hard to get the scouts to try one more time? How did they feel about this?

7. Then you got to watch it go up in the shuttle. Tell us about that experience and what happened during the flight.

8. What was your reaction to this?

9. What were the boys’ reactions?

10. Did you do anything to commemorate the loss?

11. Was any trace of the flag ever found?

12. Then what happened to the flag?

13. Why are you telling the story now, after all these years?

14. The author of this book is Gordon Ryan. How do you happen to know him?

15. If people want to buy this book, where can they find it?