harold denton sent by president carter to be part of the response to the accident. his papers included a file of letters and cards from schoolchildren thanking him for his role in that. here are a few examples. these mostly come from an elementary school class in york. one of our favorites is this one, there is a nice flower. the student says i was very scared. we would have been dead. i am very happy radiation got me upset. some of these cards have nice drawings of the cooling towers. governor thornburgh received this huge letter. this came from sheffield elementary school, prepared on friday may 4, 1979. they shut down all nuclear power plants. over the years, we have had researchers come into the state archives to look at these collections. some people come to remind themselves what happened. other people come to study the state government response. people use these records to look at what has happened in the past and apply those lessons and thoughts to issues dealing with

at the same time, the president says harold denton will be his personal representative on the incident. 30, the governor had a press conference from the media schoolst which time the were to be closed. among the papers we received from elinor thornburgh are telegrams and letters regarding what people thought should be done to deal with the accident. there are some very interesting suggestions. someonea telegram from who was with the manhattan project. he telegram the governor to say to prevent melt down, if safety rods are inoperative run borax solution into damaged nuclear reactor if the accept -- access port is available. a letter came from terry richards of kansas city. he has lots of advice for the governor. what's interesting is he drew sketches of how he watched the problem. there were people who were opposed to the use of nuclear energy and were concerned about the accident. there was criticism of what was happening at the time. this is a telegram to the governor on march 30. it says dear sir, it's the greatest moral sin for you to state there is no danger to children or pregnan