PROVE IT!! Don't be like a demonrat that only makes accusations without proof. PROVE IT!! OR SHUT UP!!!
PROVE IT!! Don't be like a demonrat that only makes accusations without proof. PROVE IT!! OR SHUT UP!!!
Well, I can't offer any direct proof other than my own personal experience as someone who lived through that time, and who observed the adoption of metal detectors for security purposes in the 1970s. I guess I didn't expect my observation to be so troublesome to anyone.
If you Google the words metal detector security history you will find this Wikipedia page. If you look at that page carefully, you will find a paragraph entitled "Security Screening" that includes these words:
A series of aircraft hijackings led the United States in 1972 to adopt metal detector technology to screen airline passengers, initially using magnetometers that were originally designed for logging operations to detect spikes in trees. The Finnish company Outokumpu adapted mining metal detectors, still housed in a large cylindrical pipe, to make a commercial walk-through security detector.
Now, I don't want to be argumentative, or offend your obviously well-tuned desire to defend Mr. Beck, but I'm finding it difficult to understand why, if a radio commentator like Paul Harvey was able to anticipate the need for the use of metal detectors for school security in 1965, why did the first actual devices used at United States airports have to be improvised from metal detectors originally designed for logging operations to detect spikes in trees? Was Paul Harvey the only man in America who anticipated the need, making public his prediction in 1965, while every department of the government, at every level, ignored his prediction?
I mean, I listened to Paul Harvey pretty much every day from approximately 1982 until maybe 2007, and I thought he was a remarkable communicator. As I said, I remember hearing him delivering the words quoted earlier in this thread, and, although I can't remember exactly when I heard him do so, it certainly wasn't in 1965, when I used my transistor radio to listen to The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel but not - I regret to say - to Paul Harvey. Many years later, in the mid-1980s, his words on the radio helped me personally and directly, and I've always been thankful for the truth he spoke on that occasion.
However, as much I esteem Paul Harvey, and miss his clear voice and great wisdom, I find it a little hard to believe that he foresaw the use of metal detectors for use in schools six years before that technology was placed in limited use in US civialian airports, and at least ten years before it was used at schoolhouse doors.
But hey, I could be wrong. My recollection is that Paul Harvey didn't try to foretell the future in his radio broadcasts very often; that wasn't his style. I'm not saying he never did it, just that he didn't do it very often. Can I prove it? No, I can't, really. I guess it's just a memory.