Dick Thornburgh was the former U.S. Attorney General as well as the former governor of Pennsylvania, who guided the state through the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.Thornburgh served as U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, as well as Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Division, before running for governor as a Republican in 1978.
He won the election, and he was just two months into his first term when the unprecedented disaster at Three Mile Island occurred.
The nuclear plant, located near the state capital of Harrisburg, experienced a partial meltdown that terrified locals as well as people across the country.
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