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May 15, 1953: Happy Birthday to CONELRAD! (CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation) The Truman administration-initiated broadcast warning system became operational. It lasted for ten years before being replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System. We now have the Emergency Alert System.


By law, radio sets manufactured between 1953 and 1963 had these frequencies (640 or 1240 kHz) marked by the triangle-in-circle ("CD Mark") symbol of Civil Defense.

Part 6 - THE CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM (PDF)

The Sacramento Bee's CONELRAD reminder ran at the top of its radio listings from the day the system became operational to the day it was scrapped on August 5, 1963. On August 6th, there was no notice whatsoever.


Notable date: August 5, 1963: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.


The REAGAN movie is coming to theaters in August.




Immerse yourself in real life with Criterion's 4K restoration of Albert Brook's brilliant first film "Real Life" (1979). Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brooks debut feature, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about the perils and pitfalls of trying to capture the truth on film.


The writer-director plays “Albert Brooks,” a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year in Phoenix embedded with Warren and Jeanette Yeager (Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain) and their two children, deploying an arsenal of cutting-edge equipment (including the over-the-head Ettinaur 226XL camera) to capture an American family’s ordinary day-to-day.
Mostly filmed in Phoenix, Arizona, including at the zoo.



May 15, 1972: President Richard M. Nixon spoke on the phone with Deep Throat (Mark Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI) about Arthur Bremer and the attempted assassination of George Wallace.





Bremer (born in 1950) was sentenced to 53 years, but was released after 35, in 2007, with time off for good behavior. He has since lived a quiet life in Cumberland, Maryland.

Arthur Bremer shot Gov. George Wallace to be famous


The hunt is on for...


BBC news

Somewhere the Traffic warden is muttering: "I just want to be left alone."



According to his Facebook profile??


AP World new - This shot comes just days after Fico formally and publicly rejected The WHO Global Pandemic Accord and has repeatedly stated that he would stop sending weapons to Ukraine. Last I heard, he's expected to survive.


Seasons in the sun...






Two quotes from the book:

"He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world."

"If schools are what they were in my time, you’ll see a great many cruel blackguard things done, and hear a deal of foul, bad talk. But never fear. You tell the truth, keep a brave and kind heart, and never listen to or say anything you wouldn’t have your mother and sister hear, and you’ll never feel ashamed to come home, or we to see you."