"The president and his staff are currently being transported to a secure location." KNOWING (2009).

"This is not a test." The non-existent Emergency Broadcast Transmission (E.B.T.) from KNOWING (2009).

DHS terror alert chart cameo in KNOWING (2009). The chart was retired in 2011. The anchor is played by Ted Maynard.

ACADEMIC. MIT Prof. J. Koestler, Astrophysics Dept., ID No. 21501. #NicolasCage

Totally normal.

Norman Fell, armed and dangerous. DAN AUGUST, 1971.

Trump is urging Supreme Court Justices to study the FOX rantings of noted legal scholar, Mark Levin. lol.

Via @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

"There are no immediate plans for a feature follow-up to ARGO, he added." - VARIETY, January 15, 1980.

In the laser disk section at the thrift store.

Random book finds at the thrift store...

Spotted at the thrift store: "Revolt of the Second Sex" by Julie Ellis (Lancer, 1970).

The Nancy Meyers Collection at the thrift store.

Happy Easter.

In 1989, COG whistleblower Fred Westerman sued FEMA for documents. The judge granted FEMA's motion for summary judgment. Whatever documents Fred was after have long since been destroyed as part of FEMA's records retention policy. cc: @vermontgmg.bsky.social @foianate.bsky.social

Had to check Truth Social to confirm this one was real. Of course it is.

Artist John Van Hamersveld talks about his cover design work on The Jefferson Airplane's CROWN OF CREATION (1968). The photographs of the bandmembers were taken by Hiro [1930-2021]. The mushroom cloud image came from the government, but it is not of the Hiroshima bomb explosion.

Wonder if he ever teleports to Mount Weather cafeteria. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

1979 VARIETY ad for the Studio 6 / CIA production of ARGO, a Tony Mendez joint.

Anyone who watched DANGER MAN knows what NATO stands for.

What a cover, DISCOVER! (photo by Michael Melford). If you're wondering about the holy man, see the next post.

George "Slam Dunk" Tenet and Robert Mueller (R.I.P.) in the PEOC on 9/11.

Excellent short video by the Washington Post posted around the time of the Fire and Fury craziness of 2017. With @krugler.bsky.social; @wellerstein.bsky.social; @milhistcurator.bsky.social. Graphics by: Daron Taylor. fb.watch/GfCSTOeVjk/

Susannah Hoffs, SECONDS fan... #RockHudson #SaulBass #CriterionCloset

Everything was nuclear in 1984... Trivia: Los Alamos physicist Merri Wood would later get married at the Sedan Crater. cc: @gn62.bsky.social

Out of print and not streaming. Thank God for libraries.

VP Dick Cheney with the 9/8/01 issue of The Economist on 9/11. cc: @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Robert Lorenz [1941-2026], the FEMA specialist who was named in a late 1980s COG whistleblower complaint and who was acquitted of murdering his Loudoun, Virginia neighbor in 1996, was the security officer for Mount Weather. He retired from FEMA in 2002. cc: @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Is that part of a Football seen with Cheney's military aide on Marine Two on 9/11. This same military aide is seen in various PEOC pics from earlier in the day, too.

Evidently Pam Bondi hasn't done quite enough to prove her allegiance to the president.

According to the Edward Beach biography "Beneath the Waves" by Edward Finch, Beach was such a fan of the Bob Newhart routine, "The Cruise of the USS Codfish," that he would play it over the PA system of the USS Triton during NATO exercises. cc: @beschlossdc1776.bsky.social youtu.be/qW8ZAllkqjQ?...

Today's Random Find: "Stripper Beebe Berto nabbed in dope raid." - Los Angeles Mirror, April 26, 1954.

As close as we ever got to a FUGITIVE episode with a JFK assassination backdrop... NOWHERE TO RUN (NBC, 1978). David Janssen / Stefanie Powers / LBJ.

EMILY. She's Super! Paddy Chayefsky must have been thrilled with the 1967 reissue of THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY (1964).

Paperwork from wife killer and Sculthorpe Air Base master sergeant Marcus Marymont's [1921-2000] personnel file. At one point in his military career, he was assigned to the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program (AFSWP) for a year. If 'pilonidal cyst' sounds familiar, it is due to Rush Limbaugh...

"This is the real thing." White House bomb shelter anecdote from Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. in his memoir IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1993). In 1954-55, Crowe was an assistant to Eisenhower military aide, Edward L. Beach.

Happy April Fools' Day from 1984...

No fart machine in sight... A pre-AIRPLANE! Leslie Nielsen makes an announcement on behalf of Ford Motor Company in 1973. At approximately the 48 min. mark: youtu.be/djYbH7sfbk4?...

Paul Flaherty's (yes, brother of SCTV comedian Joe Flaherty) CLIFFORD premiered on April Fools' Day 1994. It was filmed in 1990 and had a delayed release due to financial troubles at Orion Pictures. #MartinShort #CharlesGrodin

On this day in 2004 - April Fools' Day - the UK declassified its very real Cold War era documents re: BLUE PEACOCK - a plan to keep atomic landmines warm using... chickens. As recently featured on SECRETS DECLASSIFIED WITH DAVID DUCHOVNY.

@foianate.bsky.social featured in the Able Archer segment of S2:E1 of SECRETS DECLASSIFIED WITH DAVID DUCHOVNY.

Just got this guy's military personnel record. He was in an intelligence unit at Sculthorpe Air Base. Probably thought he had the whole situation wired.

Amateur thespian Marcus Marymont murdered his wife at Sculthorpe Air Base in 1958 and was sentenced to life. Yet somehow he managed to get out in July of 1967 - six years before his original parole eligibility date. He quickly remarried and resumed his acting career...

Virginia Leith's [1925-2019] body was cremated, *not* donated to medical science. I was really hoping it was true and not some stupid Internet thing. Bummer. cc: @frankconniff.bsky.social

"noted news contributor" Joe Concha. lol. cc: @justinbaragona.bsky.social

lol.

Fallout Shelter Sign at Calvert Hall, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Md. h/t Jess B.

Sable Colby (Stephanie Beacham) discussing modern art. DYNASTY (1985).