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Nebraska Senator Kenneth Wherry; In 1950, supported McCarthy

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Nebraska Senator Hazel Abel; In 1954, voted to censure McCarthy

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Governor Val Peterson, in the Cornhusker Yearbook, 1952

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Gen. Curtis LeMay in an unfamiliar setting, the bridge of a Navy ship, watching one of the early atomic bomb tests that SAC carried out

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A sight Janie LeMay became used to: Staff Sergeant Billy Davis stands guard at the entrance to the Headquarters facilities of the Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, June 1959

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The B-47 was the first major SAC bomber. It had a crew of three and could deliver over 8,000 pounds of bombs.

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One of the last crews of the Looking Glass plane. In 1990, SAC was deciding whether or not to end 24-hour-a-day flights for the Looking Glass aircraft.

From NET Television program, Cold Warriors Never Die

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Man directing traffic in an evacuation drill from the 1964 film, "Let’s Face It"; Protesters were upset about the Civil Defense evacuation drills that they felt were designed to give people a false sense that they could survive a nuclear explosion

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"Omaha Action" protesters march from Lincoln to the Mead ICBM construction site in 1959

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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Atomic Bomb Civil Defense Plan in Nebraska

Find out how nuclear evacuation plans were made.

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Operation Cue began with breakfast, followed by the blast and a survey of the destruction at various distances from Ground Zero, May 5, 1955

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Maxine Morrison, wife of former Gov. Frank Morrison, was not impressed with the size and condition of the Nebraska governor’s mansion’s shelter

From the 1999 NET program, Remaking a Mansion for First Families

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Construction of the Nebraska State Historical Society building, 1952

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Nebraska Governor’s residence in Lincoln, west side, 1956

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Susan Aegerter from Seward County with her prize 4-H steer at the Cornhusker Hotel, 1956

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Outside Hotel Bassett - Range Cafe, Bassett, Nebraska

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Strikers from all across the Midwest gathered at the rally in Pueblo, Colorado

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This sign in a manure spreader expressed the frustration many farmers felt in the late 1970s over farm prices

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Nebraska Senator Kenneth Wherry; In 1950, supported McCarthy

Nebraska Senator Hazel Abel; In 1954, voted to censure McCarthy

Governor Val Peterson, in the Cornhusker Yearbook, 1952

Gen. Curtis LeMay in an unfamiliar setting, the bridge of a Navy ship, watching one of the early atomic bomb tests that SAC carried out

A sight Janie LeMay became used to: Staff Sergeant Billy Davis stands guard at the entrance to the Headquarters facilities of the Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, June 1959

The B-47 was the first major SAC bomber. It had a crew of three and could deliver over 8,000 pounds of bombs.

One of the last crews of the Looking Glass plane. In 1990, SAC was deciding whether or not to end 24-hour-a-day flights for the Looking Glass aircraft.

Man directing traffic in an evacuation drill from the 1964 film, "Let’s Face It"; Protesters were upset about the Civil Defense evacuation drills that they felt were designed to give people a false sense that they could survive a nuclear explosion

"Omaha Action" protesters march from Lincoln to the Mead ICBM construction site in 1959

Atomic Bomb Civil Defense Plan in Nebraska

Operation Cue began with breakfast, followed by the blast and a survey of the destruction at various distances from Ground Zero, May 5, 1955

Maxine Morrison, wife of former Gov. Frank Morrison, was not impressed with the size and condition of the Nebraska governor’s mansion’s shelter

Construction of the Nebraska State Historical Society building, 1952

Nebraska Governor’s residence in Lincoln, west side, 1956

Susan Aegerter from Seward County with her prize 4-H steer at the Cornhusker Hotel, 1956

Outside Hotel Bassett - Range Cafe, Bassett, Nebraska

Wisner

IBP

Strikers from all across the Midwest gathered at the rally in Pueblo, Colorado

This sign in a manure spreader expressed the frustration many farmers felt in the late 1970s over farm prices