  In 1963, a proton radius of $0.805(11)~\mathrm{fm}$ was extracted from
electron scattering data and this classic value has been used in the standard
dipole parameterization of the form factor. In trying to reproduce this classic
result, we discovered that there was a sign error in the original analysis and
that the authors should have found a value of $0.851(19)~\mathrm{fm}$. We
additionally made use of modern computing power to find a robust function for
extracting the radius using this 1963 data's spacing and uncertainty. This
optimal function, the Pad\'{e} $(0,1)$ approximant, also gives a result which
is consistent with the modern high precision proton radius extractions.
