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Editor and co-founder of CONELRAD. Also at: @conelrad6401240 .bsky.social

Detroit, MI
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"This is a REAL emergency. This is an ATTACK warning." Pre-recorded LBJ/Nixon era EBS tape found by @DoomTape1981 at the National Archives and shared with us.
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@JessicaHuseman I send my FOIA birthday cards when my original requests turn one year older. Does this speed up my FOIAs? Not really, but the cards have to go into some file forever.
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From Apollo 11 viewing in a camper in 1969 to a Blue Origin space launch in 2021. Quite a life. #WilliamShatner
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#OTD in 1979, Three Mile Island happened.
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"Yes, I did all of the photos for the Rockford Main Title. AWESOME FUN PROJECT, Jimmy was a blast to work with! Most of the project was well planned candid looking shots, but I also stayed glued to him for the better part of a month." Photographer Dan Wolfe to me. #ROCKFORDFILES
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@AtomicAnalyst R.I.P.
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Speaking of balloons... Here's a Rover wrangler on location at @Portmeirion in North Wales. #THEPRISONER . #PatrickMcGoohan
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There aren't many color images in the civil defense records group at the National Archives, but this one that I found a few years ago is a real keeper. The finding aid says it is "the filter center" at @NORADCommand in Colorado Springs, CO.
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Whit Stillman's METROPOLITAN (1990) is a Christmas movie.
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Cold War for Kids...
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@jdawsey1 @JaxAlemany Great article, but why didn't you mention that Mr. Fitton does not possess a law degree?
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#OTD in 1962, Russian submarine officer Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov [1926-1998] saved the world during the #CubanMissileCrisis . Read more here:
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#OTD in 1976, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets participated in a widely condemned *reenactment* of the #Hiroshima bombing - complete with a simulated atomic explosion - for a paying crowd of 40,000 people in Harlingen, TX. More here:
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#BOTD in Pittsburgh, PA: American film and TV character actor, Burt Mustin [1884-1977]. cc: @SilverAgeTV
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Remember when we had a President who had a vacation reading list? @JoyAnnReid
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@farhip @VOANews And just the other day he was lecturing via Twitter on how America should not be compared to a banana republics.
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TV Guide had an idea something was up... #OTD in 1990: The greatest final scene in sitcom history aired on CBS. NEWHART, "The Last Newhart," May 21, 1990, S8:E24. #BobNewhart #SuzannePleshette cc: @SilverAgeTV
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Happy July 1st from 1974...
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"So there's been a nuclear attack..." New York City launched a nuclear attack preparedness public service announcement today. View it:
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#OTD in 1962 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President John F. Kennedy was confronted (briefly) by protesters hoisting a "Segregate Our Fallout Shelters" banner. #JFKonthisday #JFK
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#MomsForLiberty reminds me a little of the infamous Goldwater campaign front group called Mothers for Moral America. Nancy Reagan, Hedda Hopper and Mrs. Buddy Ebsen were among the women on their letterhead.
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#OTD in 1991 President George HW Bush announced the beginning of the first Gulf War. In his televised address to the nation, Mr. Bush quoted a gung ho Marine named "Hollywood" Huddleston. In 2012 ex Marine Bourne P. "Hollywood" Huddleston was convicted of murdering his wife.
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OJ and Hoover.
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Direct mail artifact from the '84 presidential campaign. Won on eBay in 2016.
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@daveweigel FOX legal analyst Jonathan Turley, who says the Texas case is nonsense, has officially become part of the deep state.
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Gosh! #OTD in 1962 Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow received the Family Entertainment Award from the Women's Division of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. cc: @SilverAgeTV @HollywoodArea
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#OTD in 1968 #LeonardNimoy met #JimiHendrix at Otto's Grotto in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Not exactly UHD 4K... #OTD in 1952: The first live nationwide television broadcast of a nuclear test via @KTLA .
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Re-Elect Governor Santini, 2022! #WhitBissell #SOYLENTGREEN #CharltonHeston
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Happy #DBCooper Day to all who observe.
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#OTD in 2021 on page one of the @ajc . Story by @bluestein .
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A Republic of Gilead map was one of the decorative props on display at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre for Monday's screening of #TheHandmaidsTale season 2 finale. Here are some shots of the map. #AtomicWasteland H/T @ClarkeIngram
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They didn't get it. #WhitStillman #Jeopardy
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@cenkuygur @MSNBC Even better with a picture.
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1/3. #OTD in 1975 we lost Henry Blake. M*A*S*H, "Abyssinia, Henry," CBS, S3:E24, March 18, 1975.
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On this day in 1956, #EdSullivan scared the living sh*t out of a generation of American children. Read the story here: … and watch the film:
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#OTD in 1974, PRAY FOR THE WILDCATS aired on ABC. #WilliamShatner #AndyGriffith #MarjoeGortner #RobertReed cc: @SilverAgeTV
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#OTD in 1984, the #JohnMilius film RED DAWN opened in theaters. 1/3.
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@NC5PhilWilliams @iamjohnoliver @LastWeekTonight Favorite quote about you as spoken by John Oliver.
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@RadioFreeTom The most filmed Fallout Shelter Sign in network television history. Left: First appearance from the 1982 pilot; Right: Last appearance, from 1992, season 11, ep. 1.
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"Chuckles Bites the Dust," gets all the press, but @EBraeden as "The Critic" is my favorite MTM ep. @TheOnlyEdAsner
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#OTD in 1978, the "What's Happening!!" episode "Doobie or Not Doobie: Part 1" guesting starring @TheDoobieBros aired on ABC. S2:E16. cc: @SilverAgeTV
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Remembering #PhilOchs on this day. R.I.P.
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#OTD in 1963, THE FUGITVE premiered on ABC. R.I.P. Helen Kimble. cc: @SilverAgeTV
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@rothschildmd Can't even get verified on Truth Social...
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I'm pretty sure this is *the* John Cassavetes who wrote this telegram to JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but perhaps @ZoeRCassavetes could weigh in. Found at the JFK Presidential Library. #CubanMissileCrisisLetters
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The only color 'duck and cover' shot that I was able to find at the National Archives.
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From tonight's #Jeopardy . ICYMI @MavrocksGirl
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#OTD in 1961, the classic TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Shelter" aired on CBS. S3:E3. Written by Rod Serling. cc: @SilverAgeTV
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Happy birthday to Valerie Harper who in 1973 co-starred in the comedy special "The Shape of Things." The program was written and directed by women and featured Joan Rivers & Phyllis Diller & others. Watch a clip:
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@mikepompeo You're a disgrace.
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#OTD in 1961: The post-apocalyptic "Two" episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE aired on CBS. S3:E1. Starring #CharlesBronson and #ElizabethMontgomery cc: @SilverAgeTV
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What was that noise? #Trinity75 #TrinityTest
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@RadioFreeTom Great first episode, Tom. Looking forward to watching all of 'em.
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@AnneSerling That first episode has it all. So great.
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Happy birthday to @MavrocksGirl 's father! #BOTD the great James Garner.
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#OTD in 1973, Henry Kissinger informed Brent Scowcroft that the president was too "loaded" to talk about the crisis in the Middle East with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Edward Heath.
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"Estes Kefauver: What's He Up to Now?" CONFIDENTIAL, May 1954.
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On February 28, 1962 Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow received the Family Entertainment Award from the Women's Division of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. cc: @SilverAgeTV @HollywoodArea
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Yes, the John Birch Society had a summer camp...
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"Hey, guys! I'm OK. I'm OK!" - Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), last seen on the "Abyssinia, Henry" episode of MASH (3/18/75), resurfaces on the CHER show. Broadcast #OTD in 1975. Watch the cameo here: cc: @SilverAgeTV
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1/2. Happy DB Cooper Day!
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Jim Rockford / Lance White reunion at David Janssen's 1980 funeral. #JamesGarner #LoisClarke #TomSelleck . #DavidJanssen . cc: @MavrocksGirl
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#OTD in 1957: "a 63-foot Redstone missile is hoisted into position for display in New York's Grand Central Terminal. To this day, there is a hole in the ceiling near a gold-leaf depiction of the constellation of Pisces that marks the spot where cables secured the missile." - @AP
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@ddale8 Noted "historian" @newtgingrich displaying his extraordinary talent for research.
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Forty years ago tonight THE DAY AFTER premiered on ABC. #OTD in '83. 🧵
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@ArmsControlWonk Who doesn't like a good Football prank?
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Fallout Shelter Sign cameo in ALL OF ME (1984). #SteveMartin #FalloutShelterSignCameos
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#OTD in 2018: a ballistic missile alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and the Commercial Mobile Alert System over television, radio, and cellphones in Hawaii.
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R.I.P. Bob Graham [1936-2024]. His diary-keeping was legendary. h/t @BookLockdown . cc: @LarrySabato @MarcACaputo . #ACEVENTURA
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Mary Tyler Moore on location in 1970 in front of 2104 Kenwood Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN. The house was used for exterior shots for Mary Richards' apartment on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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@ggreenwald @JoeConchaTV @Snowden @RandPaul @mattgaetz @TulsiGabbard @ACLU @BernieSanders @nytimes Also angry? 2013 Citizen Trump...
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@AtomicAnalyst Nothing to see here...
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Jim Rockford ( #JamesGarner ) cat-sitting for his attorney. That's Christina Onassis on the cover of the @people . March 3, 1975 issue. #TheRockfordFiles
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#OTD in 1966, the GILLIGAN'S ISLAND ep "Meet the Meteor" was preempted by a Jacques Cousteau special. The world would have to wait an extra week to see the Professor build a Geiger counter out of bamboo. One stuffy critic was thrilled with the delay. cc: @SilverAgeTV
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JK Galbraith was not a fan of the original draft of the Kennedy administration's civil defense booklet. He expressed his concerns to JFK in a 11/9/61 memo. I was delighted to find the original image at the JFK Library last year. Galbraith definitely had a point. @rickperlstein
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@mdornic Hey @briansflood , I watch @CNN . Sometimes I get annoyed by the Tom Selleck reverse home mortgage ads. If you want to interview me for a hit piece, I'm available.
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Nelson Rockefeller's obsession with fallout shelters was perhaps best summed up by prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru: "Gov. Rockefeller is a very strange man."
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"He told a series of anecdotes that were remarkably pointless." - Jimmy Carter on Ronald Reagan. White House Diary, Jan. 20, 1981. "He kept talking about Jack Warner. Who's Jack Warner?" - Jimmy Carter on Reagan as quoted in Richard Reeves' 2005 book "President Reagan"
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Faded movie posters outside my covid-shuttered local cinema. 5/4/21.
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In the 1960's, @FBI created a character named "Irving" whose letters were used to sow discord between the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party USA. Found while doing COINTELPRO research. "There is no chance of embarrassment to the Bureau." More...
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Happy birthday to character actor / screenwriter Valerie Curtin. #SkyAquarian (aka Gopi, aka Hester) on the David Chase-written #RockfordFiles episode "Quickie Nirvana"(and, yes, she is also Jane Curtin's cousin). The Rockford ep. is available free on Peacock. cc: @SilverAgeTV
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Guests at a Las Vegas hotel pause to admire the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb test less than a 100 miles away.
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#OTD in 1983, the controversial NBC TV movie SPECIAL BULLETIN was broadcast. R.I.P. @CityCharleston . cc: @SilverAgeTV . Much more in the thread...
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@Stonekettle Someone at @LateNightSeth heard you...
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@RadioFreeTom "There’s a page or two about Kushner’s time at Harvard. He omits the fact that he was admitted after his father pledged $2.5 million to the college." Shocker.
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Hawkeye Pierce reads a paperback from 1963 in 1950.
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@vmenendezb I found this color shot at an L.A. movie poster store in the 1980s.
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Broadcast on ABC #OTD in 1963: THE OUTER LIMITS episode "The Architects of Fear" starring Robert Culp, Geraldine Brooks, Leonard Stone & Billy Green Bush! cc: @SilverAgeTV
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#QueenElizabeth at the Berlin Wall in 1965.
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The *real* Dec. '63 @TheAtlantic issue and the alternate reality version seen in WARGAMES (1983) that features the groundbreaking article "Poker and Armageddon: The Role of Bluffing in a Nuclear Standoff" by Stephen Falken with John McKittrick. cc: @RadioFreeTom
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The MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW team was in Minneapolis for two days during the week of May 20, 1973 to shoot a new opening for the show. The Minn Star headline is different, but it looks like #Watergate burglar James McCord went on to have a cameo in every episode from S4:E1-S7:E24.
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@GlennThrush I was commenting on the contempt Miller has for the press. Should have been more clear. I'm a Post / Times subscriber. Respect what you do.
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@DavidCayJ By the great @thatpolitoguy .
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#OTD in 1962, actor #LeonardNimoy and wife Sandra sent a telegram to President John F. Kennedy protesting the high-altitude nuclear test Starfish Prime that was conducted three days later (7/9/62 - the same day the telegram was referred to Dept of State). H/T @ZeitgeistAlanA
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Weekend thrift store find. 1947.
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"Hey, guys! I'm OK. I'm OK!" - Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), last seen on the "Abyssinia, Henry" episode of MASH (3/18/75), resurfaces on the CHER show. Broadcast #OTD in 1975. Watch the cameo here: cc: @SilverAgeTV
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@justinbaragona Obviously a big Blues Hammer fan.
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@justinbaragona A certain Hill media columnist used to tweet a lot about ratings. Not so much anymore.
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