Bill Geerhart
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Cold War weirdness (mostly). More here...
https://conelrad.blogspot.com/
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"You maniacs!"
about 1 year ago
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Is this available to stream anywhere?
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eHarmony...
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She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/style/she-tried-to-kill-a-president-he-loved-her-anyway.html?searchResultPosition=2
about 13 hours ago
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Marjoe Gortner as a junkie snitch. POLICE STORY.
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about 14 hours ago
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Gabriel Kaplan's dramatic debut is now available on TUBI...
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about 15 hours ago
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You can catch William Shatner's episode of POLICE STORY on Tubi. S2:E9. "Love, Mabel." 11/26/74.
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POLICE STORY is now streaming on TUBI.
about 15 hours ago
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DYNASTY prequel... John Forsythe as the upstanding chief of police and Lloyd Bochner as the sleazy mayor. POLICE STORY (1974). Available on TUBI.
about 15 hours ago
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Filming release signed by Carmen J. Maggio [1925-2010], founder and owner of the Rowe-Manse Country Corner (Emporium) in Clifton, NJ. As seen in the civil defense film OCCUPYING A PUBLIC SHELTER (1965). The Emporium closed in 2003.
youtu.be/CXlKFDfBfM4?...
about 18 hours ago
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Sheltercize! OCCUPYING A PUBLIC SHELTER (1965).
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about 19 hours ago
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Another example of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING's influence on MAD MEN,
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
?
#MADMEN
about 19 hours ago
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Final FOIA response of 2025: The @FBI file of OPERATION IVY star Reed Hadley (real name Reed Bert Herring) was destroyed. Onward to '26.
about 20 hours ago
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He had no idea what was in store for him in '62 (and thereafter). Editorial cartoon by Jim Berryman [1902-1971] published on this day in the Washington Evening Star.
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No offense to host/narrator Garry Moore, but this civil defense film would have benefitted from John Schuck (who, along with the rest of the cast, was cut).
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When to leave your fallout shelter... KNOWLEDGE IS PROTECTION (1964).
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Garry Moore and half of a Fallout Shelter Sign graphic. KNOWLEDGE IS PROTECTION (1964).
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Groggy man learns of the atomic bomb. KNOWLEDGE IS PROTECTION (1964).
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about 20 hours ago
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Late-period Obama era FEMA posters found on the National Archives website.
about 22 hours ago
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reposted by
Bill Geerhart
Mrs. Betty Bowers
1 day ago
If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
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James Cameron Defends ‘A House of Dynamite’ Ending: “It’s the Only Possible Ending”
Cameron weighs in on Kathryn Bigelow's nuke thriller and explains why its cliffhanger ending was actually perfect.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-cameron-a-house-of-dynamite-ending-1236448480/
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Ever wonder who plays "Belligerent Man" in the civil defense film OCCUPYING A PUBLIC SHELTER"? The answer is stage and TV actor Charles Hart Reynolds [1920-1994]. Watch the film here:
youtu.be/CXlKFDfBfM4?...
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Ever wonder who plays "Irate Woman" in OCCUPYING A PUBLIC SHELTER" (1965). The answer is radio and TV actress Ethel Everett [1909-1973]. Watch the movie here:
youtu.be/CXlKFDfBfM4?...
1 day ago
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At the National Archives: Inside this ordinary Hollinger box with the taped-on, handwritten label is civil defense motion picture gold. Cast lists, shooting schedules, scripts, music clearances. Wow.
2 days ago
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According to the 1965 government film THE PROTECTED SCHOOL, United High School near Laredo, TX was equipped with decontamination showers.
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2 days ago
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Jan Crawford apparently does not read
@propublica.org
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2 days ago
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Fitting that Toobin wrote this.
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He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/magazine/thomas-goldstein-supreme-court-gambling.html?searchResultPosition=1
2 days ago
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Mr. Green (
@mjmckean.bsky.social
) with Col. Mustard (the great Martin Mull) in the Cold War-set farce CLUE (1985).
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Sen. Joe McCarthy cameo in the Cold War-set farce CLUE (1985).
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Brian Cole Confesses: Wanted to 'Speak Up' For Elex Deniers
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Brian Cole Confesses: Wanted to 'Speak Up' For Elex Deniers
The man charged with planting pipe bombs before the January 6 Capitol riot said he felt compelled to "speak up" for those who felt the 2020 election was rigged
https://share.google/EoHB3tx6hm9bh11jF
2 days ago
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"Just how this album will be accepted in this area is in doubt..." - Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), Jan. 16, 1966. Watch John Denver in the Mitchell Trio perform "Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan":
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Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey) and Hawk Fuller (Matt Bomer) with an anachronistic* Fallout Shelter Sign cameo. FELLOW TRAVELERS (Showtime, Ep. 8, 2023). * This scene in the episode takes place in 1957. The first Fallout Shelter Signs were posted in 1961.
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Robert Jay Lifton in "The Lives They Lived" issue of the New York Times Magazine. By
@jonathanmahler.bsky.social
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For the BEST DEFENSE (1984) scholar in your life...
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Legendary reporter Seymour Hersh and a Fallout Shelter Sign. This shot is most likely at the Library of Congress. As seen in the new Netflix documentary COVER-UP (2025).
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Retired US Secret Service agent Joseph Paolella [1928-2017] wants to go off the record re: JFK and Marilyn Monroe. As seen in the new Netflix documentary on reporter Seymour Hersh, COVER-UP. He was being filmed for the excellent Peter Jennings special DANGEROUS WORLD: THE KENNEDY YEARS (1997).
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"And as Vice President Bush has stated, far more than five percent of our population will survive." - Gen. Huddleston (Robert Cornthwaite). Wasn't expecting a paraphrase from Robert Scheer's WITH ENOUGH SHOVELS in DEAL OF THE CENTURY (1983).
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Perhaps the only time director William Friedkin [1935-2023] ever publicly discussed DEAL OF THE CENTURY (1983). He says he cast Chevy Chase because of his "incredible intelligence" and his "grasp" of the subjects of "the nuclear arms race and aerospace industry."
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Near the end of the 1983 TJ Hooker Christmas episode, he walks alone toward a DEAL OF THE CENTURY billboard. TJ HOOKER, "Slay Ride," S3:E12, ABC, 12/17/83. cc:
@peterapeel.bsky.social
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The Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor called me a moron. Twice. On Christmas.
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reposted by
Bill Geerhart
Sanho Tree
6 days ago
Continuing my annual tradition of sharing this insane story about how the US and Soviet Union nearly went to war during Christmas 1947 over a fight about penises.
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Roasted with chestnuts in the Barr family fireplace decades ago. h/t
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
from the other place.
6 days ago
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Movies that premiered in NYC a half-century ago on Christmas Day. All ignored by that new Netflix documentary.
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"Merry Christmas, punk!" - William Shatner as TJ Hooker. TJ HOOKER, "Slay Ride" (get it?), S3:E12, ABC, 12/17/83. With guest stars Marjoe Gortner and Robert Dryer.
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Donald Trump's Kennedy Center Remarks Cut to Two Minutes
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CBS Cut Down Trump’s Kennedy Center Remarks to Two Minutes, Didn’t Use New Name
Donald Trump's opening monologue for the Kennedy Center Honors was apparently deemed too long by CBS, which cut his remarks down by 10 full minutes.
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7 days ago
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The 1983 Pepperdine yearbook devoted two pages to ABC's BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS which was filmed on campus.
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You never know what you're going to stumble upon while doing random key word searches on Ancestry's yearbook archive.
7 days ago
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Ursula K. Le Guin book cameo on the season finale of
#Pluribus
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IYKYN
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"Nation's First Bomb Shelter House." "Live Better...Electrically." 1959.
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reposted by
Bill Geerhart
Marty McKee
7 days ago
Present for you. ARIZONA HEAT (1988).
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Atom-Powered Reindeer. Post-Cuba Crisis Christmas '62.
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