Korea

Our family bought a television in 1952.  I remember a few of the shows but I'm not sure from my memory or the advantage of reruns over time.  "Down with Trumanism" was a big campaign slogan in that election cycle and unlike the romanticised "M*A*S*H" of the 70s, the real deal Korean War was raging.  My next door neighbors, the Willis family, had a son Cookie over there and he made it home.  He kept an 8 clip of bullets for his rifle up on his dresser on the 2nd floor of their home on Fountain Avenue in Dayton.

During and through the immediate years thereafter, the US Army Signal Corps produced a weekly television series called "The Big Picture" and learning about the war effort shifted from Cookie Willis's stories on the front porch to the television that carried Captain Video and the Saturday Night fights.  At the time we didn't really take it for amateur propaganda because we were deathly afraid that if the North Korean Communists backed by the Chinese over ran South Korea for keeps that we would be facing the Communists landing in San Francisco within weeks.  Certainly post war Japan would be under the gun.  Mostly, MacArthur would want to drop atomic bombs and the whole world would get crazy.

Just sayin'. No point in fear mongering.  Just sayin'.