An optimistic Jack Carter in the 1964 Players Directory. cc: @classicshowbiz.bsky.social

Trying to ID bit players in Atomic movies. Like going through mugshot books at the 12th Precinct...

"WELCOME TO AMERICA IN 2025 WHEN THE BEST MEN DON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT..." This Richard Bachman guy was on to something.

Someone reposted the CBS News coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt of 3/30/81. At approx. the 12:30 mark, anchor Dan Rather credits CBS cameramen Norm Stein and Charlie Wilson. He also describes "the so-called man with the Football." (it's not a "medical case.") youtu.be/ZQgyG-HxXmY?...

45 years ago today, RAGING BULL premiered in New York City.

Bunker Men '53. Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall & MacDonald. #RavenRock

Evidently the closed-captioning person didn't hear what I heard. The actor playing Caspar Weinberger clearly whispers "Grab the Football." KILLING REAGAN (TV movie, 2016).

Patrick St. Esprit as Al Haig in KILLING REAGAN (National Geographic TV, 2016).

Nuclear Football cameo in National Geographic TV's KILLING REAGAN (2016).

Longtime fan of Nate Jones and his Able Archer 83 research. Here's my unboxing pic from Oct. 29, 2016. So far the State Department hasn't asked for my copy.

My copy of BIG JIM MCLAIN has fallen victim to Warner Bros Disc Rot.

Richard Dreyfuss chews the scenery as Al Haig in Showtime's THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT (12/9/2001). www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVx...

The Nuclear Football gets a surprising amount of screen time in Showtime's THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT (12/9/2001). www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVx...

"I have been thinking about that..."

Jeffrey Tambor as a man obsessed with the Trilateral Commission. BARNEY MILLER (1981, ABC). tubitv.com/tv-shows/200... cc: @rickperlstein.bsky.social

This looks fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plxr...

Via Colbert...

Pasta Emergency Levels Chart. Via Colbert.

Future Oscar nominee #SallyKirkland wrote to Pres. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kirkland was already appearing in gossip columns by '62 (her mother was a major fashion editor in NYC). I found this telegram at the JFK Presidential Library. R.I.P. Sally Kirkland.

Lucy and Desi suite mention in Joe Weber's 1999 novel PRIMARY TARGET.

Lt. Col. Arthur G. Maxwell - the Mayor of Raven Rock - in 1991.

Raven Rock construction worker Harry J. Casner, thankfully, lived a long life following his 1953 injury.

Looking forward to reading this new ROCKFORD FILES book.

Feb. 23, 1963: A Fallout Shelter Sign is posted at the Fire Hall at 29 So. Potomac St. in Waynesboro, PA - about ten miles from the government super-bunker, Raven Rock. The subtitle to @vermontgmg.bsky.social's book RAVEN ROCK immediately springs to mind...

Nuclear Football cameo in the second episode of Vince Gilligan's PLURIBUS (HBO). With Samba Schutte as Mr. Diabaté. "Don't drop it!"

Construction worker Robert C. Davis [1908-1961] died of a heart attack while working on the government super bunker known as Raven Rock. 12/20/61. R.I.P.

Thanks to the hippie journalist from DC's alternative newspaper QUICKSILVER TIMES for these shots of Mount Weather from 1970.

Sounds like a mess of a movie... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/m...

Young Odd Couple. 1952.

Disgraceful.

Sputnik-inspired prank. Washington Evening Star, 11/8/57.

Smerconish & Luntz. Ratings poison.

Via @lastweektonight.com. At approximately the 27:39 mark: youtu.be/Ejoi9yfLVCc?...

On this day in 1963, about two weeks before JFK's assassination, the president's military aide Chester V. "Ted" Clifton wrote a letter expressing how impressed he was with the Greenbrier Bunker in White Sulphur Springs, WV.

ATOMIC TRAIN (NBC) clapboard. 1999.

Seymour S. "Steve" Greenfield [1922-2006], project manager for all six of the Cold War era bunkers constructed by PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF. These include Raven Rock, the Greenbrier Bunker, Cheyenne Mountain, and, almost certainly, Mount Weather.

The Raven Rock bunker project gets a shout-out in a local newspaper (Waynesboro, PA Record) engagement announcement. 11/10/51. cc: @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Syndicated newspaper columnist Ruth Millett [1912-1997] on the fallout shelter morality debate. 10/20/61.

"Tin Pan Alley song publishers are being harassed by a flood of 'fallout' and 'bomb shelter' tunes from amateur composers..." - Excerpt from the 11/20/61 column by Dorothy Kilgallen [1913-1965].

Stern's bomb shelter issue. November 26, 1961.

@hillaryclinton.bsky.social, in the photograph, you appear to be enjoying the Football skit from August of 1997. Do you remember it?

On this day in 1914, character actor Jonathan Harris was born in the Bronx, New York, Earth. He left the planet on November 3, 2002.

Hey @jfallows.bsky.social, do you remember Hamilton Jordan calling President Carter's Nuclear Football carrier "Bam Bam"?

Two months before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Waynesboro Construction Company won an Army contract for office modifications at Raven Rock (aka Site R"). The company is still in business. www.waynesboroconstruction.com

On this day in 1946, the Atomic Cake incident happened in Washington, DC.

"Raven Rock May Be Ike's Bomb Shelter." - Waynesboro (PA) Record Herald, Feb. 11, 1955.

Raven Rock gossip in the Hagerstown (MD) Morning Herald newspaper shortly after OPAL '55. Local restaurant owner Clark Wishard [1919-1995] was probably on some sort of list after this edition. cc: @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Daniel Schorr is atomized in Robert Stone's brilliant WORLD WAR III (1998). h/t Earl Bickel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YELF...

If you were wondering who was responsible for CELEBRITY GUIDE TO WINE (1990). #LastWeekTonight archive.org/details/cele...