Dear Friends,
I received this email from Alan Virta, our historian on THE FALL OF ‘55. I thought you might be interested as well!
Talk soon,
Seth
PBS Fronline will use 4 images from our Lyman Wilbur collection on their program next Tuesday night (Oct 13) which is about the war in Afghanistan. The slides can be seen now in a rough cut preview on the Frontline website HERE.
The segment which shows the four Wilbur slides begins at the 13:58 minute mark. That is only on the sneak preview. I don’t know where they will appear in the actual program itself. The slides come and go in less than a minute but it’s great to have our name in the credits on PBS Frontline. To make a long story short, Lyman Wilbur as international V.P. for Morrison Knudsen went to Afghanistan in 1957 to inspect M-K’s development work over there and took 40 slides. Frontline will be using 4 of them in a brief retrospective look at past American involvement in the country. Mr. Wilbur’s daughter donated the collection to Boise State when he died at age 101 in 2001.
Alan
Alan Virta, Head of Special Collections and Associate Professor
Boise State University, Albertsons Library (Boise, Idaho)