Tom Harrison, back row, center; Joanne Landy, second row, right This interview was originally published in Left History. This version is reposted from New Politics, where it was republished in 2018. Joanne Landy died in 2017. See here for a brief obituary. Introduction
The city s first apartment building was the Van Dorn, later renamed the Mengedoht Apartments, at 22nd and Leavenworth Streets. A quarter-century later and across Leavenworth was built the Drake Court.
In September 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov chose not to believe what his computer was telling him, and probably saved the world. The system had assured him that the very convincing blips on the Soviet early warning radar scopes were five incoming ICBM missiles, launched from the United States as a first strike.
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