the university of virginia, charlottesville, washington, and lexington, denison university.hey are moved there after the library of congress staff people examine around 60 locations in the area that would be somewhat inland, somewhat protective of potential bomb attacks and had all of the requisite means to protect documents. humidity issues had to be dealt with, the leakage, water issues have to be dealt with. protected from mites and vermins? that begins the process where they are moved totally in secret. mr. lamb: how are they moved? mr. puleo: they are moved by truck, tractor-trailer, if you will. the boxes were first unpacked in the library of congress, stored in the basement and moved at night, late at night to these different repositories as i said around virginia and ohio. mr. lamb: how many people were involved getting these boxes ready? mr. puleo: it was quite a task, an amazing task. 700 library of congress staffers devoted about 10,000 hours of their time assessing, collecting, packing these documents and getting them ready. he was very adamant that he want -- th

really only comes down to three, university of virginia, washington lee, vmi and then they denison universityn granville, ohio and then they muchze in vmi there is too dampness so they move all of those documents to denison university. mr. lamb: washington lee and vmi sit right next to each other. mr. puleo: yes, and lexington. even though it was somewhat inland, protected by mountains it would be easy to get to. the library of congress staffers went to these locations relatively frequently to examine the documents, so they wanted a place they could get to. they did not want the desert in utah where they could not examine them so they needed to find a place that satisfied all of the requirements but then was easily accessible. mr. lamb: in the back of your book you have a huge video graphic essay. what is it? mr. puleo: all of my books have been geographic essays. i want my readers to know my sources and how i use them i try to use best organize the essay according to topics, chronology, whatever seems to work best at the time and to let my readers know how i use these sources that i use. i r

really only comes down to three, university of virginia, washington lee, vmi and then they denison university in ranville, ohio and then they realize in vmi there is too much dampness so they move all f those documents to denison university. mr. lamb: washington lee and vmi sit right next to each other. mr. puleo: yes, and lexington. even though it was somewhat inland, protected by mountains it would be easy to get to. the library of congress staffers went to these locations relatively frequently to examine the documents, so they wanted a place they could get to. they did not want the desert in utah where they could not examine them so they needed to find a place that satisfied all of the requirements but then was easily accessible. mr. lamb: in the back of your book you have a huge bibliographic essay. what is it? mr. puleo: all of my books have bibliographic essays. i want my readers to know my sources and how i use them i try to use best organize the essay according to topics, chronology, whatever seems to work best at the time and to let my readers know how i use these sources that i use.