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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 7h

Notes From a Dec. 29, 1960 NSC meeting: President Eisenhower wanted a draft of a doomsday message in his Football. "150 words with some blanks left to be filled in at the last minute was a necessity." Thanks for the lead, @DoomTape1981
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 10h

IT TAKES A THIEF. First season opening (1968). Title Design by Wayne Fitzgerald [1930-2019]. Theme by Dave Grusin. The first image seen is Robert Wagner with a blowtorch. Michael Mann must have been watching...
youtu.be/hxuNm99ktv0?...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 14h

With Taylor Swift's "Wood" in the news...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 14h

This guy can commiserate with the fired Mount Weather FEMA workers... IYKYK.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14h

“As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition."

Who among us hasn’t uploaded 187k porn images to a govt system?

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h

hate when this happens

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 15h

Bizarrely, he does not write about the "skit" in the memoir in which the photo is included.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Lol.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Former Clinton military aide Buzz Patterson discussing the Nuclear Football. www.thecipherbrief.com/podcasts/rob...

Robert "Buzz" Patterson on Holding the Nuclear Football

Listen to Robert "Buzz" Patterson on Holding the Nuclear Football on TheCipherBrief, where experts dive into daily national security topics.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Strangelove name-check in Bill Clinton's autobiography, MY LIFE (2004).

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Former Clinton military aide Buzz Patterson discussing the Nuclear Football at approximately the 8 min. 20 sec. mark: www.c-span.org/program/book...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, if weren't for the government shutdown, you know I'd be burning up the phonelines to the Clinton Presidential Library...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

That's Patterson showing some leg.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

According to former Clinton military aide (and Football carrier) Buzz Patterson's memoir, "Dereliction of Duty," there was once a "Football" skit on the South Lawn of the White House.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

It really stretched the limits of James MacArthur's acting ability.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Lloyd Bochner strangles Anne Archer. HAWAII FIVE-O, S3:E12. Dec. 2, 1970.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

ABC Evening News report from 1977 on the scourge of PCP (Angel Dust). With Geraldo Rivera rapping with teens about their experiences "on the dust." #BarbaraWalters

youtu.be/n0rnfRN9dns?...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

Just noticed that former Clinton military aide (and Football carrier) Buzz Patterson's tell-all "Dereliction of Duty" is blurbed by Howard Stern Wack Packer Melrose Larry Green.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 1d

"NUCLEAR EXPLOSION!" Advertisement for a military sound effects record found in the November, 1962 issue of ESQUIRE. Listen to sample sounds from the LP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkP9...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d

Sixty years ago tonight, fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) finds himself trapped at a resort where the government is conducting a top secret chemical weapons test. THE FUGITIVE, ABC, S3:E5.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d

Buzz Patterson, one of President Clinton's military aides (and Football carriers) on meeting @hillaryclinton.bsky.social and Chelsea Clinton in his 2003 book ("Dereliction of Duty," Regnery) and in a 10/11/25 tweet.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d

Great article, but how do leave out this TIME cover? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d

THE GODFATHER reference in LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (1977). R.I.P. Diane Keaton.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d

Great find by @esotericcd.bsky.social. Roswell Boyd Drake [1954-2025] of Florida has some rock music recommendations for William F. Buckley, Jr. (with Mr. Buckley's reply). National Review, April 12, 1974. cc: @rickperlstein.bsky.social

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 3d

THE BEDFORD INCIDENT had its world premiere sixty years ago tonight at the Garde Theater in New London, CT.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 3d

In addition to playing tractor manufacturer George Sylvester in INVASION, USA (1952), actor Robert Bice [1914-1968] was also the dialogue director on the film.

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 3d

Sometime around 1999 when we launched the CONELRAD website. We now have nearly 500 of them on the facebook page.
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CONELRAD - All Things Atomic

CONELRAD - All Things Atomic. 3,709 likes · 345 talking about this. Serving all of your Cold War pop culture needs since 1999.

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