Lancaster filmmaker Mary Haverstick may have stumbled onto the story of a lifetime – a biopic of Jerrie Cobb – one of a group of women who passed the same tests as the male astronauts of the Mercury 7 project in 1960. The women would never fly in space, but they were hailed throughout the nation never-the-less. But the more Haverstick talked with Cobb and explored her life – the more she realized there was a much bigger story -- one that may have changed the narrative of one of the biggest moments in American history. The would-be film became a book – A Woman I Know – Female Spies, Double Identities and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination. Mary Haverstick is with us on The Spark today.

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