Market Street Bridge from the deck of Dockside Willie's Restaurant, Wormleysburg, PA

Apple grove, near York Springs, PA

Apple country, near Biglerville, PA

Picnic area at Fuller Lake, Pine Grove Furnace State Park, PA

Fuller Lake in Pine Grove Furnace State Park, PA

Beach at Fuller Lake, in Pine Grove Furnace State Park, PA

Passage to India, fine Indian dining and buffet in Harrisburg,PA

Contractors putting the final touches on the installation of the Pennsylvania Workers' statue on Boas Street in the Capitol Complex of Harrisburg, PA

State Capitol in Harrisburg, PA

Kent Courtney with Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh

In 1978, Dick Thornburgh launched a campaign for governor of Pennsylvania. He won the primary over three other contenders, including Arlen Specter, who had become well-known as a former Democrat who switched parties and was elected the Philadelphia County district attorney in 1965 and the more conservative David W. Marston, a former U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, who was controversially dismissed in 1978 by the Jimmy Carter administration after Marston launched prosecution of two Democratic congressmen and two Democratic state legislators.

Despite a Democratic majority in the commonwealth, he and running mate William W. Scranton III defeated Pittsburgh mayor Pete Flaherty. The victory was attributed to Dick Thornburgh's campaign promises to crack down on government corruption, at a time when 230 state officials were convicted of corruption. Thornburgh and Scranton were reelected in 1982. However, Scranton failed to win the governorship on his own in 1986.

In what was likely the biggest event during his gubernatorial career, Dick Thornburgh oversaw emergency response efforts to the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg in 1979. To quell public fears, he ordered a partial evacuation of the area, and 140,000 people left the region during the crisis. He was also partly responsible for overseeing cleanup efforts

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