Rural bombing campaigns risked damaging the Library of Congress’s newspaper collections.

Evidence

The Korean War was the beginning of the end for the library’s huge and irreplaceable wood-pulp newspaper collections: in trying to figure out how best to bomb our enemies, we bombed ourselves. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 285

Categorization

  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 285