Kenneth P. O'Donnell (Kevin Costner played him in THIRTEEN DAYS) holding the special commemorative Cuban Missile Crisis calendar prepared by Tiffany's and distributed to the National Security Council ExComm and close aides. Photograph by Arnold Newman in 1965. cc: @beschlossdc1776.bsky.social
The nuclear superpower of Lancaster, Winfield and Young.
The "...i need you in my plan..." LP by singer-songwriter Cindy Kaye (Kim Cattrall). WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF '65 (NBC, 12/29/77).
Walt Durbahn [1894-1981] in the November 1960 issue of CONCRETE magazine with a promotion of the new civil defense film WALT BUILDS A FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTER, presented by the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA).
Educational milk cap spotted on eBay...
No.
"History, damn it."
#OTD in 1947, THE BEGINNING OR THE END opened at The Grove Theatre in Oak Ridge, TN.
Ed Begley Jr. in AIRPORT '79.
"If we should ever have a nuclear war, we could get a heavy fallout." - Walt Durbahn [1894-1981], WALT BUILDS A FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTER (1960).
Apologies for the misspelling of 'borsht,' but I was cutting and pasting from the @gettyimages.com caption and didn't catch their error.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
"Get This Timely Hillbilly Record Now!"
youtu.be/w_WA-oR1w54?...
Timely...
youtu.be/9O7doMD89NI?...
"Eileen Keenan, a waitress at the 1203 Restaurant in Washington, DC, puts up a sign outside the restaurant, March 6, inviting everyone to enjoy 'Free Borst' in celebration of Stalin's death."
Note to the younger people out there: Sometimes you have to physically go places to get things. That said, I really wish this was online...
Ever wonder who the star of WALT BUILDS A FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTER was? He was a Chicago area shop teacher named Walt Durbahn [1894-1981] who also happened to have a popular local TV show titled WALT'S WORKSHOP.
October 18, 1984. "An airman first class operates a teletype machine for the Emergency Broadcast System at the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Command Cheyenne Mountain Complex." National Archives.
When the the Human Reliability Program goes wrong... USAF Captain Harold David Spruell [1947-2016], was arrested in 1983 for multiple bank robberies near the Grand Forks Air Force Base where he worked as a crew commander in a launch control center. Sentenced to 10 years. Reoffended in 1991.
John Houseman as Vice-Adm. Farley C. Barnswell getting back to his meal after lying to the President of the United States. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964).
No. On the right. In the blue tie. Making the face.
That's Secretary Noem's husband, Byron Noem, making the face in the cuck chair.
October 18, 1984. Perhaps the only publicly released photograph of the Granite Inn dining facility at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. #NORAD. Photograph by SSGT Bob Simons, USAF.
Seems relevant yet again... Donald Trump in the very first issue of SPY magazine. October 1986. "The Ten Most Embarrassing New Yorkers."
Lockheed product placement in SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964).
CALIGULA?
3/3. Remedy... ?
2/3. Reaction.
1/3. In January of 1978, journalist Joseph Albright's three-part series on nuclear security was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other newspapers.
