George and the FBI

When my brother, George, died in 1997, people at the funeral were telling stories about their feelings about him and their relationships they had with him. Friends from CalTrans (including the District Engineer), Air Force friends and, of course, family members. My sister, Dorothy got up to some something and then it was my turn.
I told about the time George was in SAC in Florida. At that time, one third of SAC was in the air at all times. He told me that if the red phone by his seat rang, it would be an order to got to a certain location in Russia and drop an atomic bomb.
With the Cold War paranoia that was going on at the time, The FBI were checking out every person with the idea that a spy might get in SAC and when the order came to bomb Russia, they would bomb Washington D. C. instead.
They actually came to Live Oak to make inquiries about him. They checked with the high school principal, the postmaster (who happened to be my aunt), the mayor and other city officials. They also checked with private citizens.
At a large class reunion covering the previous 50 years, he and my older brother, Donald, and my brother in law, Bill Raney, were talking with members of several classes in their age group and six of these people remembered the FBI checking with them. They convinced them that he was OK by telling them that George was the best paper boy they had ever had.