I have found each person has a different view of early history.

I suggest searching for stories by
Chuck Piper
Ray Goodson
Jerry Irvine
George James

You should find them on rec.models.rockets as well as the earliest Rocketry Online. I am pretty sure most of the messages which in any way disparaged TRA have been deleted by Troj and no longer exist. I do not know of a backup that is online and I seem to recall archive.org is not helpful for database stored message boards.

Here is the current RRS party line:

http://www.rrs.org/main/index.php?o...id=20&Itemid=33

Some groups actively delete stories by persons other than themselves as possible.

So unless someone interviews the principals before they die, plenty of history will be lost forever.

Jerry