In the coming months, I hope to let every citizen know what steps he can take without delay to protect his family in case of attack. "We owe that kind of insurance to our families and to our country. Build a FALLOUT SHELTER, not a SNOWMAN OTD 1961: JFK urges Americans to build bomb shelters By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs OTD 1961, JFK urged. The Hawaiian Islands are annexed by the United States - July 7th, 1898. Images from Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962. Against the backdrop of escalating tensions with the Soviet Union, Kennedy urged Americans to build bomb shelters in a speech he delivered on Oct. Listen to President Kennedy Advises Americans To Build Fallout Shelters - October 6th, 1961 and 1,691 more episodes by This Day In History Class, free No signup or install needed.
The change came after John Kennedy became president. Bruner and daughter Rhonda, 8, pose in their home fallout shelter in Knoxville, Tenn. That changed with the 1957 publication of the Gaither Report, which backed the building of shelters that "permit people to come out of the shelters and survive." Mrs.
Even though public drills in the event of a nuclear attack was routine in the 1950s, the Eisenhower administration did not actively promote the construction of home fallout shelters. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cold War tensions and threat of nuclear war convinced government leaders in the United States that millions of lives could be saved by the construction of home fallout shelters.
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