Joseph Ball:
CLASS OF 1954
Brentwood High SchoolClass of 1954
Pittsburgh, PA
Joseph's Story
Life
After leaving high school, I joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary army and helped over throw Batista government in Cuba. While on a raid to push back the CIA'S special forces in Havana, I met Che Guevara and became his right hand man in his campaignto over throw the governments in Chile and Bolivia. These successful missions caight the attention of the CIA headquarters in Washington and they persuaded me to help them set up the clandestine operation to over throw the c...Expand for more
orrupt governments in Africa. However, after two narrow escapes of being discovered, one from a crash in the jungle of the Congo and the other from Ida Amin jail for Ugandan trators, I decided to retire, move to California, finish my schooling at UCLA and graduate school at California Institute of Technology in astro physics. Worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as navigation director for the missions to Mars and other space missions. Got married, and rasied two children
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