SO FAR AS could be officially determined, only about 100 people died when the atomic bomb fell on New York City on Wednesday morning the 28th of November 1951. These luckless souls perished on the … ...

In 1951, the schools in some cities began to distribute student dog tags. ... Duck and Cover was filmed at P.S. 152 in Astoria, Queens, using teachers and students as actors.

But in 1951, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had yet tested a hydrogen bomb, and the duck-and-cover era authorities were basically preparing people for a rerun of Hiroshima and ...

In 1951, the Astoria School System in New York City produced a documentary called “Duck and Cover: Bert the Turtle.” The objective was not only to raise awareness of the imminent threat… ...

Each year at St. Euphrasia Elementary School in Granada Hills, California, we were shown a nine-minute, black-and-white film entitled "Duck and Cover." Made in 1951 by the U.S. Federal Civil ...

On March 1st CONELRAD, the website devoted to Cold War popular culture, launched a campaign to get the 1951 Civil Defense film “Duck and Cover”into the Library of Congress’s National Film ...

Duck and cover! On June 14, 1954, ... "Duck and Cover" (1951), taught a whole generation of schoolchildren to be prepared for an atomic attack that could come at any time: ...

I vaguely remember the “duck and cover” drills at my public grammar school. I do remember it was quite a hoot ducking under my table and, for a few moments, sticking out my tongue and ...