John Stapp - Legacy

Legacy

Stapp's life was dedicated to aerospace safety in particular, and safety in general; he was one of the principal advocates of automotive safety belts, and he would work them into press-conference answers over many years and many press conferences. When President Johnson signed the mandatory seat-belt bill into law in 1966, and consumer advocate Ralph Nader stood by his side, much of the decades-long underlying popularization groundwork and its supporting research had been laid by J.P. Stapp, who also stood in the room that day only a short distance away.

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