Something you might not know: Jerry was a SCUBA diver.
“Thirty years ago, in the late afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 1959, a
33-year-old Convair engineer named Robert Pamperin went skin diving for abalone
off La Jolla Cove and was never seen again. He was accompanied during the dive
by a friend, Gerald Lehrer, who later would claim to have witnessed Pamperin
being swallowed by a shark.”
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1989/jun/15/cover-taken-by-a-shark/
There was much discussion about insurance fraud but I believe Jerry’s
explanation. He was grilled for years.
I had lived in San Diego before then and returned to Astronautics in February
1958. I only knew Jerry by email and phone several years later when I had
purchased a Rolleimarin IV.
DAW~
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Don't know what happened to Jerry. I spoke with him about 17 years ago. He
had visited with me in San Diego when I was living downtown in our house on
Balboa Park. We talked trash about photography and I brought-out cameras for
us to play with. He was a walking trivia book.
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