At 07:08 AM 10/8/2014, you wrote:
Though we are lucky enough to be able to talk to many people that experienced the events, first hand, I have found that interviews done 30, 40 or 50 years after the fact is fraught with the difficulty of people remembering exactly what happened. Many people "remember" what has been most frequently reported over the past decade or so.
I think it is likely such people often remember their own evolving stories of what happened more than what has frequently been reported more generally. (For instance, in the Internet domain I know better than many of the frequently reported oversimplifications of how things happened, but I also probably over estimate my role in my head and my stories told to interviewers). However, since so many people are still around from electronic digital computing history, a scholar might interview several of them, note inconsistencies, and get them to talk to each other to sort it out. They are not unlikely to have contemporaneous documents in their cellars or attics, which they can go get to prove their point and perhaps discover their incorrectness.