Scope and Contents The Montgomery County Civil Defense Documents house various papers from Montgomery County, the Tennessee Civil Defense Agency (TCDA), and former TCDA president Joan Blair. With dates ranging from 1958-1962 and 1978-1986, this collection consists of informational pamphlets, defense plans, meeting agendas, financial records and personal correspondence. It sheds light on a time when the county, state, and country feared the possibility of a nuclear attack. Within just a few decades, those fears...