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A Safeway commercial gets interrupted by incoming missiles and CONELRAD finally gets airtime! A rare film clip from TARGET...AUSTIN, TEXAS, a 1960 KTBC-TV Project 7 presentation written and narrated by Cactus Pryor.

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  • Can we see the whole film?

  • Wow! Far out! Where can one find/buy/download the film this came from? It's fascinating to get a glimpse of that era's broadcast technology, too.

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  • Where can you see the whole thing?

  • KTBC was owned by the family of then-Senator (and future President) Lyndon B. Johnson.

    "Project 7" referred to KTBC's channel number, and was a play on words of NBC's "Project 20" documentaries (I believe that in 1960, KTBC was affiliated with all three TV networks then in existance).

  • Well, to defend that system. People were a lot more competent then.

    And radio was a lot more complex then. So no average dumbass would be in charge of all that equipment anyway. Unlike today.

  • There is.. Search Buffalo NY CONELRAD. and to respond to this, What the hell did they expect people to do, hide in their crawlspace of their homes? not everyone has a shelter burried in their backyard.  Imagine neighbors killing neighbors for food and water

  • Reminds me of Mr. Bush. This got updated today on Fox News Channel it is now called the Terror Alert Eishenhower was President during this filiming wasn't he?

  • woudlnt that cause a mass panic

  • They had 20 minutes of advice. If the brodcaster didn't have to do all the stuff he did -recieve the alarm, tune whatever machine to hear the verification, call the technician, put on the pre-recorded reel AND let the official CONELRAD announcer in- they would have like five more minutes.

    Did they really believe that, in the heat of the moment, the announcer would act flawlessly? Even in the middle of the night?

  • what happened to the rest of the film?

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