By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

- William Scranton

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying t…

- William Scranton

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

- William Scranton

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going t…

- William Scranton

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was makin…

- William Scranton

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it wa…

- William Scranton

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had…

- William Scranton

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiat…

- William Scranton

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out momen…

- William Scranton