Click2Flicks - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Chapter 5

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>INDIANA JONES and the<br> KINGDOM of the CRYSTAL SKULL</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 5 - AVOIDING the FLASH</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Whether officials were certain the Soviets would launch a nuclear attack against America <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/culture/"><b>during the 1950s</b></a>, or simply because the possibility existed, state and federal governments aggressively addressed this question:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>What are you supposed to do when you see the flash?</b></i></font></center> <p>“The flash,” of course, refers to an exploding atomic bomb. An overriding concern was that it could happen with no warning.</p> <p>Massachusetts issued a brochure for its citizens called <a target="_blank" href="images/protection_from_the_atom_bomb_brochure.cover_courtesy_commonwealth.massachusetts.jpg"><b><i>Protection from the Atomic Bomb</b></i></a>. It includes statements like this:</p> <center><size="4"><b>IF YOU HAVE HAD NO WARNING<br> IN AN A-BOMB ATTACK</center></b><br> <center><size="3"><b>WHEN YOU SEE A FLASH OF LIGHT<br> BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN - </center></b> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Don’t run: there isn’t time.</li> <li>Fall flat <a target="_blank" href="images/on_your_face_mass.brochure_warnings.jpg"><b>on your face</b></a>.</li> <li>GET DOWN FAST!</li></center> </ul> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>At the same time the federal government issued similar warnings, it <i>also</i> created films and brochures explaining the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/Survival1951"><b>effects of a bomb</b></a> and urging people to stay in their cities - and fight - in case an enemy dropped a nuclear bomb. <a target="_blank" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2659962057531522803"><b><i>Our Cities Must Fight</b></i></a>, the 1951 Civil Defense film, contains lines like this: </p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Staying in a city after an Atomic attack<br> is not as dangerous as people think. </center></font></b></i> <p>The federal government, and other institutions, have been <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/VIDS/interviewLink_university.html"><b>criticized</b></a> for creating films and brochures which failed to provide people with accurate information on the adverse effects of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/VIDS/interviewLink_aftertheworld.html"><b>exploded nuclear bombs</b></a>. Comparing the knowledge learned from observing <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/200712090001.html"><b>sick people</b></a> in Japan, with the scripts of government-sponsored films created six years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one can understand those concerns. </p> <p>What government officials said in 1947 - about the Roswell Incident - led to <i>much</i> more than public criticism and disbelief. Let’s investigate the evidence of that infamous event.</p> </div> <center> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="indiana_jones_ch4.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>  <a href="indiana_jones_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>  <a href="indiana_jones_ch6.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</p> <br> </a></td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align="center" valign="top"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.awesomestories.com/includes/ad_format.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>