O. Marvin Lewis, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, October 18, 2000 & January 17, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 307 and 308

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0. MARVIN LEWIS WIN: How did you like jumping? MAR: Well, it was very much anti-climax. You don t have the s nsation th t u d when falling, like you do when you get off of a six-foot diving board. I cou dn t stand th idea of jumping off of a six-foot diving board, but jumping out of a plane - you just sort of squirt out the back, and the noise - You don't have the sensation of falling at all. And then there's the shock of the opening of your parachute. It was not necessarily painful. WIN: Was it fun? MAR: Yeah, to some extent it was fun. We looked forward to jumping. You know, the more jumps we could accumulate, the better we felt about it, you know. WIN: Could you control those old parachutes very easily? MAR: Well, not too easily. They're not like the current 'chutes they use today. They were small 'chutes, 28 feet diameter as I recall, and our reserves were 22 feet, but the big comfortable 'chutes tha~ they have now that they can pull down the minute that they land, and land standing up even- that makes me wonder! Boy, we used to land like a sack of cement! The thought was that it was about the same as jumping off of a sixteen foot building. In other words, you would land like a sack of cement and you just try, as you get closer and closer to the ground, to judge when the land was going to hit you- and it was difficult to make that judgement. And, when you'd land, you'd land so hard, you'd try to relax the best you could, and relax and go like a sack of potatoes or whatever. We were originally taught you were supposed to land on your feet and then tumble forward - that's a bunch of crap! We'd land like a sack of potatoes, whomp! And you'd hope that 10