Joe Hall Patton
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History Lost: The 1978 National Archives Nitrate Vault Fire

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April 15, 2019

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In 1978, employees at a National Archives storage facility in Suitland, Maryland heard a "thump." Millions of feet of highly flammable, irreplaceable historical newsreel footage was suddenly in the middle of a conflagration.

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