Editing Barry Goldwater (section)

==Personal life==
In 1934, Goldwater married Margaret "Peggy" Johnson, daughter of a prominent industrialist from [[Muncie, Indiana]]. The couple had four children: Joanne (born January 18, 1936), [[Barry Goldwater Jr.|Barry]] (born July 15, 1938), Michael (born March 15, 1940), and Peggy (born July 27, 1944). Goldwater became a widower in 1985 and, in 1992, he married Susan Wechsler, a nurse 32 years his junior.{{Sfn | Goldberg | 1995 |pp=41–42, 48–49, 326, 332}} Goldwater's son [[Barry Goldwater Jr.]] served as a Republican [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]], representing California from 1969 to 1983.

Goldwater's grandson, Ty Ross, is an interior designer and former [[Zoli Agency|Zoli]] model. Ross, who is openly gay and [[HIV positive]], has been credited as inspiring the elder Goldwater "to become an octogenarian proponent of gay civil rights".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rich|first1=Frank|title=Journal; The Right Stuff|journal=The New York Times|year=1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/opinion/journal-the-right-stuff.html|access-date=April 27, 2017|archive-date=August 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830105823/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/opinion/journal-the-right-stuff.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poz.com/article/ty-ross-goldwater-25571-5056|title=Survival by Design|date=May 9, 2014|access-date=December 20, 2020|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224203937/https://www.poz.com/article/ty-ross-goldwater-25571-5056|url-status=live}}</ref>

Goldwater ran track<ref>{{Cite web |title=Barry M Goldwater (1909-1998) Aviator. Athlete. Adventurer. Author. Military Officer. Businessman. Ham Operator. Photographer. Politician. |url=https://goldwaterscholarship.gov/who-was-barry-goldwater/ |access-date=October 11, 2024 |website=Goldwaterscholarship.gov}}</ref> and cross country in high school, where he specialized in the [[800 metres|880]] yard run. In 1940, he became one of the first to run the [[Colorado River]] recreationally through the [[Grand Canyon]], participating as an oarsman on [[Norman Nevills]]' second commercial river trip. Goldwater joined them in [[Green River, Utah]], and rowed his own boat down to [[Lake Mead]].<ref>{{citation | last = Lavender | first = David | title = River Runners of the Grand Canyon | isbn = 978-0816509409| year = 1985 | publisher = Grand Canyon Natural History Association }}</ref> In 1970, the Arizona Historical Foundation published the daily journal Goldwater had maintained on the Grand Canyon journey, including his photographs, in a 209-page volume titled ''Delightful Journey''.

In 1963, he joined the Arizona Society of the [[Sons of the American Revolution]]. He was also a lifetime member of the [[Veterans of Foreign Wars]], the [[American Legion]], and [[Sigma Chi]] fraternity. He belonged to both the [[York Rite]] and [[Scottish Rite]] of Freemasonry and was awarded the 33rd degree in the Scottish Rite.

===Hobbies and interests===
====Amateur radio====
Goldwater was an avid [[amateur radio]] operator from the early 1920s, with the [[call sign]]s 6BPI, K3UIG and K7UGA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smecc.org/barry_goldwater.htm |title=An Afternoon with Senator Goldwater |publisher=Smecc.org |access-date=March 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212755/http://www.smecc.org/barry_goldwater.htm|archive-date=January 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=262314 |title=FCC K7UGA record |publisher=Wireless2.fcc.gov |date=May 29, 1998 |access-date=March 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104205451/http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=262314 |archive-date=January 4, 2014 }}</ref> The last one is used by an Arizona club honoring him as a commemorative call. During the [[Vietnam War]] he was a [[Military Affiliate Radio System]] (MARS) operator.<ref>{{cite web|title=Major General Barry M. Goldwater|url=http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/106951/major-general-barry-m-goldwater.aspx|website=af.mil|publisher=U.S. Air Force|access-date=November 22, 2016|archive-date=November 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123054741/http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/106951/major-general-barry-m-goldwater.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>

Goldwater was a spokesman for amateur radio and its enthusiasts. Beginning in 1969 and for the rest of his life, he appeared in many educational and promotional films (and later videos) about the hobby, produced for the [[American Radio Relay League]] (the national society representing the interests of radio amateurs) by such producers as Dave Bell (W6AQ), ARRL Southwest Director John R. Griggs (W6KW), Alan Kaul (W6RCL), Forrest Oden (N6ENV), and [[Roy Neal]] (K6DUE). His first appearance was in Dave Bell's ''The World of Amateur Radio'' where Goldwater discussed the history of the hobby and demonstrated a live contact with Antarctica. His last on-screen appearance dealing with "ham radio" was in 1994, explaining an upcoming Earth-orbiting ham radio relay satellite.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Electronics was a hobby for Goldwater beyond amateur radio. He enjoyed assembling [[Heathkit]]s,<ref name="shea19820913">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 | title=Buckley finds word processing on Z-89 'liberating' | work=InfoWorld | date=September 13, 1982 | access-date=January 9, 2015 | author=Shea, Tom | page=26 | archive-date=February 4, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204030359/https://books.google.com/books?id=EDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 | url-status=live }}</ref> completing more than 100 and often visiting their maker in [[Benton Harbor, Michigan]], to buy more, before the company exited the kit business in 1992.<ref name="fisher">Fisher, Lawrence M. "[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/business/plug-is-pulled-on-heathkits-ending-a-do-it-yourself-era.html Plug Is Pulled on Heathkits, Ending a Do-It-Yourself Era] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319224354/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/business/plug-is-pulled-on-heathkits-ending-a-do-it-yourself-era.html |date=March 19, 2017 }}" ''The New York Times'', March 30, 1992.</ref>

====Kachina dolls====
[[File:Kachina Dolls Heard Museum.jpg|thumb|Most of the kachina dolls at the Heard Museum were donated by Goldwater]]

In 1916, Goldwater visited the [[Hopi]] [[Indian reservation|reservation]] with Phoenix architect John Rinker Kibby and obtained his first [[Hopi Kachina figure|kachina doll]]. Eventually his collection had 437 dolls and was presented in 1969 to the [[Heard Museum]] in Phoenix.<ref name="kachina">{{cite web |url=https://www.azcentral.com/specials/special25/articles/1203goldwater2.html |title=Goldwater Kachinas a public treasure |work=The Arizona Republic |date=December 3, 1986 |access-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619194250/https://help.azcentral.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Photography====
Goldwater was an amateur photographer and, in his estate, left some 15,000 of his images to three Arizona institutions. He was keen on [[candid photography]]. He became interested in the hobby after receiving a camera as a gift from his wife on their first Christmas. He used a [[Large format|4×5]] [[Graflex]], [[Rolleiflex]], 16&nbsp;mm [[Bell and Howell]] motion picture camera, and [[135 film|35 mm]] [[Nikkormat#Nikkormat FT|Nikkormat FT]]. He was a member of the [[Royal Photographic Society]] from 1941, becoming a Life Member in 1948.<ref>Information provided by The Royal Photographic Society, United Kingdom, dated October 6, 2011, [http://www.rps.org/ "Royal Photographic Society"].  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402035959/http://www.rps.org/ |date=April 2, 2014 }}</ref>

For decades, he contributed photographs of his home state to ''[[Arizona Highways (magazine)|Arizona Highways]]'' and was recognized for his Western landscapes and pictures of [[native Americans in the United States]]. Three books with his photographs are ''People and Places'' (1967); ''Barry Goldwater and the Southwest'' (1976); and ''Delightful Journey'', (1940, reprinted 1970). [[Ansel Adams]] wrote a foreword to the 1976 book.<ref>''Arizona Republic'', May 31, 1998</ref>

Goldwater's photography interest occasionally crossed into his political career. John F. Kennedy, as president, would sometimes invite former congressional colleagues to the White House for a drink. On one occasion, Goldwater brought his camera and photographed President Kennedy. When Kennedy received the photo, he returned it to Goldwater with the inscription: "For Barry Goldwater—Whom I urge to follow the career for which he has shown such talent—photography!—from his friend—John Kennedy." This quip became a classic of American political humor after it was relayed by humorist [[Bennett Cerf]]. The photo was prized by Goldwater for the rest of his life and sold for $17,925 in a 2010 [[Heritage Auctions|Heritage]] auction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=6047&Lot_No=47197 |title=Heritage Auctions description of signed Kennedy photo |publisher=Historical.ha.com |date=November 17, 2010 |access-date=March 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221045509/http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=6047&Lot_No=47197 |archive-date=February 21, 2011 }}</ref>

Son Michael Prescott Goldwater formed the Goldwater Family Foundation with the goal of making his father's photography available via the internet. (''Barry Goldwater Photographs'') was launched in September 2006 to coincide with the HBO documentary ''Mr. Conservative'', produced by granddaughter CC Goldwater.

====UFOs====
On March 28, 1975, Goldwater wrote to Shlomo Arnon: "The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] where the information has been stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret."<ref name="anomalies.net" /> Goldwater further wrote that there were rumors the evidence would be released, and that he was "just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait much longer".<ref name="anomalies.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.anomalies.net/archive/Text-Archive/txt1/469.ufo |title=FOIA documents | publisher = Anomalies |access-date=March 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307074012/http://www.anomalies.net/archive/Text-Archive/txt1/469.ufo |archive-date=March 7, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Birnes2004">{{cite book |last1=Birnes |first1=William J. |author1-link=William J. Birnes |title=The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print |date=2004 |publisher=Simon and Schuster (Pocket Books) |isbn=978-0743466745 |page=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCWCfLCJOrkC&pg=PA145 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619194250/https://books.google.com/books?id=pCWCfLCJOrkC&pg=PA145 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Kean2010">{{cite book |last1=Kean |first1=Leslie |author1-link=Leslie Kean |title=UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record |date=2010 |publisher=Crown Publishing Group |isbn=978-0307717085 |page=243 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mzc6R2LH24kC&pg=PA243 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619194252/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mzc6R2LH24kC&pg=PA243 |url-status=live }}</ref> The April 25, 1988, issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' carried an interview with Goldwater in which he recounted efforts to gain access to the room.<ref>{{cite news| first = Burton | last = Bernstein | title = AuH2O | newspaper = The New Yorker | date = April 25, 1988 | pages = 43, 71 |no-pp=y}}</ref> He did so again in a 1994 ''[[Larry King Live]]'' interview, saying:<ref name="Birnes2004"/><ref name="Kean2010"/>

{{blockquote|I think the government does know. I can't back that up, but I think that at Wright-Patterson field, if you could get into certain places, you'd find out what the Air Force and the government knows about UFOs ... I called Curtis LeMay and I said, 'General, I know we have a room at Wright-Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?' I've never heard him get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out, and said, 'Don't ever ask me that question again!'<ref>YouTube clips:
* {{cite web |title=Larry King, 1994 Barry Goldwater UFO room at Wright Patterson AFB |website = YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYn5CxytwsU| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/UYn5CxytwsU| archive-date=October 30, 2021}}{{cbignore}}
* {{cite web |title=Larry King, 1994 Barry Goldwater UFO room at Wright Patterson AFB |website = YouTube| date=October 23, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCaL_4iJCjE| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/kCaL_4iJCjE| archive-date=October 30, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>}}

===Death===
[[File:Paradise Valley-Goldwater Crypt.JPG|thumb|175px|The ''Goldwater Crypt''#64]]
Goldwater's public appearances ended in late 1996 after he had a massive stroke. Family members disclosed he was in the early stages of [[Alzheimer's disease]]. He died on May 29, 1998, at the age of 89, at his long-time home in [[Paradise Valley, Arizona]], of complications from the stroke.<ref>Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000267 ''Goldwater, Barry Morris, (1909–1988)'']. Retrieved January 1, 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625035557/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000267 |date=June 25, 2013 }}</ref> His funeral was officiated by both a Christian minister and a [[rabbi]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA195|title=The Jews of Capitol Hill|isbn=978-0810877382|last1=Stone|first1=Kurt F.|year= 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press |access-date=January 3, 2017|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726190508/https://books.google.com/books?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA195|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/8517/arizona-jews-recall-goldwater-s-ties-to-community/|title=Arizona Jews recall Goldwater's ties to community|work=The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California|date=June 12, 1998|access-date=February 13, 2016|archive-date=April 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406173226/http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/8517/arizona-jews-recall-goldwater-s-ties-to-community/|url-status=live}}</ref> His ashes were buried at the Episcopal Christ Church of the Ascension in Paradise Valley, Arizona.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/news/local/scottsdale/2014/04/16/whos-buried-in-scottsdale/7798291/|website=azcentral|title=Who's buried in Scottsdale?|date=October 27, 2017|access-date=November 22, 2020|archive-date=June 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619194251/https://www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/news/local/scottsdale/2014/04/16/whos-buried-in-scottsdale/7798291/|url-status=live}}</ref> A memorial statue was erected in a small park in Paradise Valley to honor the memory of Goldwater, near his home and resting place.