Previous accounts of the designing of the T-Bird in books and magazine articles were put together from Ford press releases and from interviews with two of the designers involved, Frank Hershey and Bill Boyer, were largely hype. For some reason, the books, magazine articles, and a TV documentary on the ’Bird made it sound as if either Hershey or Boyer had designed the car alone, and failed to mention two other designers involved with the design project—Kornmiller and Samsen. In a recorded interview at the Edsel Ford library of the Ford Museum, Boyer did state “a young gentleman by the name of Dick Samson was in the studio for a while at that time. The major portion of the car—the sketching that was done—was by Dick and myself.”