What the records say
- When
- 7 Dec 1978
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 38.85° N, 76.93° W
- Description
- 1978 fire
1978 National Archives vault fire
Fire in Suitland, Maryland, US
A major fire occurred at the US National Archives and Records Administration's film vault in Suitland, Maryland, on December 7, 1978. The fire destroyed 12.6 million feet of Universal Pictures Newsreel footage from 1929 to 1967 — most of it single-copy, irreplaceable, and never seen by the public. It included film of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, other World War II combat footage, and the Great Depression.
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