Color Television
Americans who owned color televisions were cautioned by the U.S. government to stay at least 6 feet (1.8 m) away from their sets when watching TV, “and to stay away from the sides and the back of the set” because of unsafe levels of radiation. The United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare issued the warning after a report that 1,000 of 5,000 color TV sets in Suffolk County, New York “were emitting more than the accepted level of radiation” of 0.5 milliroentgens of x-ray and gamma ray radiation per hour.