President Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters - October 6th, 1961

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On this day in 1961, in a letter to the Committee on Civil Defense, President John F. Kennedy advised American families to build fallout shelters as protection against a possible nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

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