The Buzz Factory Gains National, International Media Exposure for Client Who Rescued Space Monkeys

The Buzz Factory has scored national and international publicity on National Public Radio and NASA-TV for client Joseph Guion, featuring his involvement in rescuing the first living space monkeys 50 years ago.

Guion, a resident of Williamsburg, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, is a retired Navy commander and a World War II veteran, first as an enlisted man and later as a commissioned officer. He commanded three ships during his Navy career, the USS Kiowa, USS Suffolk County and the USS Zellers. While captain of the Kiowa, he retrieved NASA space monkeys on May 28, 1959. They were the first monkeys to be recovered alive, an important milestone in the space race.
 
Nell Greenfieldboyce interviewed Mr. Guion for the NPR story, which aired on “Morning Edition” on May 28. There are links to the audio version of the story, as well as a print story, photos and an old black-and-white news reel showing the event in 1959 at the NPR Web site.

The NASA-TV story was aired internationally on its show, NASA-TV’s "This Week At NASA” on May 22. Both audio and video podcasts are available online.

In addition to this coverage, The Buzz Factory secured a section front feature about Mr. Guion in the Newport News, Virginia, daily newspaper, The Daily Press, which was picked up by the wire services and ran in many other newspapers. The PR firm is continuing to work with Mr. Guion to obtain additional earned media placements.

“This has been a fun story to work with,” says Bruce Ebert, PR consultant. “We believed in this story, and it’s exciting to see it come together.”

Mr. Guion hired The Buzz Factory in December 2009 for his public relations shortly after publishing “Stolen Votes,” a mystery-thriller partially set in Hampton Roads, Va. The book is about a plot to steal the 1986 senatorial election and force the government to be turned over to a cabal that relies on kidnapping and murder. Characters in the story include a former Navy SEAL, a Christian broadcast empire that will remind readers of a certain Hampton Roads-based TV network, and Washington lobbyists. The book is available at Mr. Guion’s Web site.

Mr. Guion is now writing a non-fiction book about his experiences involving the rescue of the space monkeys.

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