Indiana Jones (Character) 1981 -present

S4E9: "It Belongs in a Museum: The character of Indiana Jones as a primary source"

Jonathan Nichols is the director of the Woodman Museum in Dover, NH, an over 100 year old museum which houses such a wide assortment of artifacts, it just needs to be seen to believe.  His work makes a character like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones a natural favorite of his.  We talked at Free Comic Book Day this Spring about how these two creators used movies as a way to keep American values of the mid 20th century alive as the country hurdled to the future.

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