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At Ward C-20 at St. Albans Naval Hospital in Long Island, where veterans discuss the problem of civil defense with William McGrath, Assistant Chief of the Air Warning service, specifically their frustrations that more people aren't volunteering.
Concludes with nice WNYC station ID: This is the Municipal Broadcasting System, WNYC-FM the high fidelity voice of NYC.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 71910
Municipal archives id: LT1841
About Plan For Survival
Not for bedtime listening: discussions of the impossibility of preparing for nuclear winter.
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