Footnotes

1- Watchmen entry by Don Markstein- Toonpedia.com - http://www.toonopedia.com/watchmen.htm

2- "Duck and Cover" was the catch phrase (and title) of a school educational/civil defense film from 1951 meant to teach children how to hide and protect themselves from a nuclear blast.

3-The Union of Concerned Scientists published the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists with an annual doomsday clock on the cover, measuring the moments till Armageddon.

4-A UHF converter was an electronic box that screwed into the antenna leads on the back of an old TV set that allowed the set to receive stations in the UHF band. They were used before TVs came with the UHF band already included in the set itself.

5- Watchmen, An Oral History by Jeff Jensen- Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 28, 2006

6-TIME Magazine award top 100 novels - http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/0,24459,watchmen,00.html

7- Ibid, Jensen- Entertainment Weekly

8- Interview by Barry Kavanagh, October 17th, 2000 - Blather.net - http://www.blather.net/articles/amoore/

9- Toasting Absent Heroes by Jon B. Cooke - Comic Book Artist, issue 9, August 2000 - http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/09moore.html

10-Amendment XXII - US Constitution
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of
President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

11- Robert Conquest, writer on the Cold War and Soviet abuses. He is the author of twenty books on Soviet history, politics, and international affairs, including the classic The Great Terror (Macmillan, 1968). - http://www.nybooks.com/authors/111

12- Andrei Sakharov- Former Soviet physicist and Father of the Soviet Atom bomb, later turned against the government and spoke out against the abuses there- http://asf.wdn.com/

13- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were reporters from the Washington Post newspaper who are credited with uncovering President Nixon's involvement with the Watergate Break-in in 1972 -http://encarta.msn.com/media_461536729/Woodward_and_Bernstein.html

14-Speech given By Newton N. Minnow before the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961- Minnow Called television "a vast wasteland," a phrase adopted by many critics of television. Minnow was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1961 to 1963 - http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/federalcommu/federalcommu.htm

15- Ibid, Barry Kavanagh, October 17th, 2000

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