Bill Geerhart
@conelrad6401240.bsky.social
Cold War weirdness (mostly). More here... https://conelrad.blogspot.com/
Chris Bauer (THE WIRE's Frank Sobotka) as Joe McCarthy on the cover of the recreated LOOK issue from June 16, 1953. FELLOW TRAVELERS (Showtime, 2023).
December 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Chris Bauer (THE WIRE's Frank Sobotka) as Joe McCarthy on the cover of the recreated LOOK issue from June 16, 1953. FELLOW TRAVELERS (Showtime, 2023).
It may take (at least) ten years, but getting that Aurand line unredacted will have been worth it...
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It may take (at least) ten years, but getting that Aurand line unredacted will have been worth it...
Couch change for Harlan Crow...
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Couch change for Harlan Crow...
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
2025 in one shot...
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
2025 in one shot...
It is certainly understandable why the Proper People team would not want to publicize the site of their excellent abandoned bunker video, but it is most likely Poughkeepsie, NY. Here's a 1964 article on the then-new bunker.
And here is amazing bunker tour video: youtu.be/LJl7z4i5Tos?...
And here is amazing bunker tour video: youtu.be/LJl7z4i5Tos?...
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It is certainly understandable why the Proper People team would not want to publicize the site of their excellent abandoned bunker video, but it is most likely Poughkeepsie, NY. Here's a 1964 article on the then-new bunker.
And here is amazing bunker tour video: youtu.be/LJl7z4i5Tos?...
And here is amazing bunker tour video: youtu.be/LJl7z4i5Tos?...
The First Annual T.K. Jones Civil Defense Dig-In. 1983.
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The First Annual T.K. Jones Civil Defense Dig-In. 1983.
Pre-ordered. Really looking forward to reading it.
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pre-ordered. Really looking forward to reading it.
Before the "Pizza Bomber," there was Roddy McDowall in a first season ROOKIES episode...
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Before the "Pizza Bomber," there was Roddy McDowall in a first season ROOKIES episode...
"When I was in the service working in the missile silo, they told us to watch for certain things - signs that the pressures were getting to somebody..." - Mike Danko (Sam Melville) to shirtless man. THE ROOKIES TV movie (ABC, 1972).
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"When I was in the service working in the missile silo, they told us to watch for certain things - signs that the pressures were getting to somebody..." - Mike Danko (Sam Melville) to shirtless man. THE ROOKIES TV movie (ABC, 1972).
The annoying menace of "cop buffs" in 1970s network television...
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The annoying menace of "cop buffs" in 1970s network television...
Fallout Shelter Sign posted at Rutland High School. 1967 yearbook. Rutland, Vermont.
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Fallout Shelter Sign posted at Rutland High School. 1967 yearbook. Rutland, Vermont.
Future congressman and presidential candidate Robert Dornan received a screen credit for an episode of IRONSIDE even though he only appears in a still shot (he plays a kidnap victim). cc: @frankconniff.bsky.social @classicshowbiz.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Future congressman and presidential candidate Robert Dornan received a screen credit for an episode of IRONSIDE even though he only appears in a still shot (he plays a kidnap victim). cc: @frankconniff.bsky.social @classicshowbiz.bsky.social
"Bob Dornan as a Nazi." RAT PATROL. cc: @frankconniff.bsky.social @classicshowbiz.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Bob Dornan as a Nazi." RAT PATROL. cc: @frankconniff.bsky.social @classicshowbiz.bsky.social
I'm sure the @brennancenter.org / @lizagoitein.bsky.social have already submitted an MDR/#FOIA for this "set" of PEADs press releases. So have I.
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm sure the @brennancenter.org / @lizagoitein.bsky.social have already submitted an MDR/#FOIA for this "set" of PEADs press releases. So have I.
"...interesting and quietly conducted activities." Edward A. McDermott to Pierre Salinger assistant Christine Camp re: her visit to Mount Weather. Ms. Camp's Washington Post obit from 1994 states that before joining the JFK/LBJ press office, she was a CIA intelligence officer.
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"...interesting and quietly conducted activities." Edward A. McDermott to Pierre Salinger assistant Christine Camp re: her visit to Mount Weather. Ms. Camp's Washington Post obit from 1994 states that before joining the JFK/LBJ press office, she was a CIA intelligence officer.
Promotion letter found in the FOIA'd personnel file of Office of Emergency Planning employee Thomas W. Hagan [1913-2004]. As we know from other documents, he was working on PR release drafts for yet-to-be-executed doomsday PEADs. cc: @lizagoitein.bsky.social @brennancenter.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Promotion letter found in the FOIA'd personnel file of Office of Emergency Planning employee Thomas W. Hagan [1913-2004]. As we know from other documents, he was working on PR release drafts for yet-to-be-executed doomsday PEADs. cc: @lizagoitein.bsky.social @brennancenter.org
The October 1960 Atlantic was packed with great fiction... #MADMEN
www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The October 1960 Atlantic was packed with great fiction... #MADMEN
www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Mt. Weather Crash, Journalistic Dilemma" by Lulu Williams of the Winchester Evening Star, 12/06/1974.
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Mt. Weather Crash, Journalistic Dilemma" by Lulu Williams of the Winchester Evening Star, 12/06/1974.
"super-secret federal government installation known locally as Mount Weather." - Winchester Evening Times, 12/2/74.
December 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"super-secret federal government installation known locally as Mount Weather." - Winchester Evening Times, 12/2/74.
Future sorta POTUS.
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Future sorta POTUS.