History, like politics, is local. So while the collective national memory of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 has been distilled to several seconds of color home movie footage of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza and Walter Cronkite choking up on CBS, a whole set of local memories is fading away.
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In the early 1960s, it was determined that if there was another World War, especially nuclear war, the majority of the population would not survive, so Washington State and local governments had to come up with a strategy to protect as many civilians as possible.