CIVIL DEFENSE COUNCIL FILES, 1942-1989

Summary: Records of the wartime Jersey Homesteads Civil Defense Council (1942) and the Roosevelt Civil Defense Council, set up in 1951.

Contains correspondence, reports (1961-1966), an Emergency Management Plan (1989), information bulletins, brochures, rotas, forms, vouchers, and lists.

Of special interest are unsigned loyalty oaths of the 1950s and an air raid siren brochure. The possibility of nuclear attack is the subject of some 1962 correspondence.