Media Resources for 1950 — 1974

Throughout this site, we have a number of video and other multimedia resources that can take you to historical sites or help visualize what are sometimes complex ideas. This page lists all of the media resources for the Cold War era. To play these media elements you will need two free player programs, QuickTime® and Flash®. Below are links to the sites where you can download the players. Clicking these links will open a new browser window -- just close the new window to come back here.

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The Iron Curtain

QuickTime movie of Russian actions after WWII.
Iron Curtain Speech

Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech When you open the site, click on Launch Speech Player. Toward the bottom on the left, click on Highlights and then Iron Curtain to hear that section of the speech. Explore the pictures, events, Churchill's notes, etc. along the timeline.
Early TV in Nebraska

QuickTime movie of the development of TV in Nebraska.
TV Comes to Town

QuickTime movie of "TV Comes to Town."
SAC

QuickTime movie of early SAC operations.
LeMay

QuickTime movie of the history of SAC's deterrence role through the Cuban missile crisis.
Flying with the Bomb

QuickTime movie of a training flight for atomic missions.
Looking Glass

QuickTime movie of the Looking Glass missions.
Missile Command

QuickTime movie of an underground missile command bunker.
Targetting Nuclear War

QuickTime movie of the targeting of nuclear missiles and bombs.
Duck & Cover

QuickTime movie of the opening of "Duck and Cover."
Survival Plan

Flash interactive map of the Nebraska Survival Plan.
Operation Cue

Slide Show of Operation Cue photographs.
Op. Cue destruction

QuickTime movie of destruction caused by Operation Cue.
Civil Defense

Audio QuickTime movie of a 1962 Civil Defense public service announcement.
Fall of communism

QuickTime movie of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Story of Beef:
Nebraska Prospers

The Story of Beef:
Louis Dinklage & Cattle Feeding

The Story of Beef:
Stockyards Supreme

The Story of Beef:
End of the Stockyards


Click below to access Media Resources from all the eras on nebraskastudies.org.
Pre-
1500
1500
to
1799
1800
to
1849
1850
to
1874
1875
to
1899
1900
to
1924
1925
to
1949
1950
to
1974
1975
to
1999
2000
to
2024