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Bill Geerhart
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Cold War weirdness (mostly). More here... https://conelrad.blogspot.com/
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · Nov 12
"You maniacs!"
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 13h
Lol.
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 16h
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 · 16h
Strangelove name-check in Bill Clinton's autobiography, MY LIFE (2004).
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 16h
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 · 16h
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 · 16h
That's Patterson showing some leg.
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 20h
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 · 23h
It really stretched the limits of James MacArthur's acting ability.
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 23h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d
Fallout Shelter Sign cameo in RUDY (1993). h/t Tim Colby.
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d
Tibbets, Lovell, Cernan. Dayton, OH. 2003. National Aviation Hall of Fame, U.S. Air Force Museum. Bockscar pilot, Charles W. Sweeney, is not in the Hall of Fame.
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 3d
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 3d
The year before... Tibbets with walking trivia answer Eugene Cernan.
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