Bob Williams, the well-educated engineer who won a NASA medal has gone popular on social media as the excerpts from his interview from the 1980s has gone viral.
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Bob Williams Engineer Who Won A NASA Medal Reveals How Spent $50,000 On Crack, Old Interview Video Goes Viral
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In keeping with this pattern, an interview with the late engineer Bob Williams—not the astronomer Robert Williams, who was awarded a NASA medal—has gained a lot of attention on social media platforms and it went viral with many people watching it and expressing their views regarding it.
Although the interview was first released in 1981, fresh excerpts from the video have emerged on Twitter, making the engineer’s story very popular very quickly. Lots of people are trying to find out more about him and his interview. So, let’s find out more about him and his video:
Who Was Bob Williams?
Engineer Bob Williams recently made headlines as excerpts from his interview spread like wildfire through many social media platforms, making him a hot subject on the internet.
He was a highly educated engineer living in Harlem who worked in engineering and telecommunications in the 1980s.
In the 1980s, he had a respectable profession and a position that paid him an amazing $33,000 year, plus expenses and a car as part of the deal. However, Bob only lasted a couple of weeks in that position since he often skipped work.
His Interview Explained
The 1981 interview between Bob and reporter Gil Noble from the television show “Like It Is” has recently become popular on social media. The show formerly ran from 1968 until 2011 and focused on topics affecting the black community.
The film with Bob focused on his addiction and how, while he was an engineer, he used to spend hundreds of dollars a day on crack. Bob said that after being hooked to crack, he spent more than $50,000 in the first nine months and once lost $1,600 in six hours.
Bob talked about using his savings to buy crack during the interview and described how he lost his job. He said,
My account was constantly overdrawn and it stayed that way. I am self-employed now because I have not been able to hold a job.
He added,
I recently had a job that was paying me $33,000 a year and it lasted two weeks. I reported to work on Monday, on Tuesday I made the mistake of stopping at the crackhouse before getting to work so I was absent on Tuesday.
Bob continued by saying,
I was absent on Wednesday. I figured out ‘I’d better shape up or I won’t be here much longer’. Thursday and Friday I went to work. The following Monday, after a short job I had to do, I didn’t get back to work until Wednesday. And Friday was my last day.
Gil Noble, the host of the programme, disclosed towards the conclusion of the film that Bob Williams had gone away soon after the interview had aired. The original interview was aired on September 12, 1981, however, it has since repeatedly emerged on social media.