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Copy of letter from Ellen Riley, on behalf of Roger Wheeler, radio writer and producer, to A. R. Giroux, Chairman, Lexington Civil Defense Committee, April 6, 1941. The letter requests information about the Lexington Minute men and civilian organization at the time of Paul Revere. A special broadcast will be aired on April 19, 1941 on WBZ radio, consisting of a dramatization of civilian defense as it is being organized in Lexington and linking it to the significance of that day in 1775.
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Letter to the Lexington Civil Defense Committee requesting information about civil defense for a radio program, 1941
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Letter to the Lexington Civil Defense Committee requesting information about civil defense for a radio program, 1941
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Copy of letter from Ellen Riley, on behalf of Roger Wheeler, radio writer and producer, to A. R. Giroux, Chairman, Lexington Civil Defense Committee, April 6, 1941. The letter requests information about the Lexington Minute men and civilian organization at the time of Paul Revere. A special broadcast will be aired on April 19, 1941 on WBZ radio, consisting of a dramatization of civilian defense as it is being organized in Lexington and linking it to the significance of that day in 1775.
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["April 6, 1941"]
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1941
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This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).
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English
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Worthen.17.21b.05
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Cary Memorial Library
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Edwin B. Worthen Collection
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Civil defense
Lexington Civil Defense Committee
World War, 1939-1945
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
WBZ (Radio station : Boston, Mass.)
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Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Letter to the Lexington Civil Defense Committee requesting information about civil defense for a radio program, 1941.
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