Editing Crypt of Civilization (section)

==Promotion==
[[File:Back of Stone Mountain Park 2009.jpg|thumb|upright 1.0|Stone Mountain in US state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]]]
In 1937, Jacobs spoke on the [[National Broadcasting Company]] in New York to promote the Crypt on nationwide radio. A dedication ceremony at the Oglethorpe University campus took place in May 1938, led by [[David Sarnoff]] of [[Radio Corporation of America]] and the Paramount newsreels of the occasion were later placed in the crypt.<ref name="crypt1"/> Metal cards were sold to the public by the university for one dollar, which would permit a future descendant of the contributor to attend the reentering of the crypt at noon on Thursday, May 28, 8113.<ref name=PO3_29_1940/>{{refn|group=nb|In the [[Gregorian calendar]] May 28, 8113 will be a Sunday. Note that the Georgian calendar has an [[Gregorian calendar#Accuracy|error of one day every 3030 years]].}} The location of this repository of civilization items was a concern of the far future civilization being able to know of it and its whereabouts so a system was devised. Directions to the Crypt of Civilization in the state of Georgia in southeastern United States was written in seven Asiatic and seven European languages and deposited in various type libraries all over the world. The information provided told of its contents and showed its location in relation to reference points like [[Stone Mountain]].<ref name=TSLT8_29_1990>{{cite news |author= Keith Phillips |title= Crypt Entombs Secrets of 1930s for Habitants of 82nd Century |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72148129/ |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |page= 61 |location=Salt Lake City, Utah|date= August 29, 1990 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref>

Jacobs and Peters permanently closed off the crypt in a ceremony that was announced in a newscast by Atlanta's [[WSB (AM)|WSB]] radio May 25, 1940.<ref name="crypt3"/> Notable figures present at the ceremony were Dr. Amos Ettinger, [[William B. Hartsfield]], Dr. M. D. Collins, [[Ivan Allen, Jr.]], politician [[E. D. Rivers]], postmaster [[James Farley]] and [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner [[Clark Howell]].<ref name="crypt3"/> The door was welded shut, and a plaque was fused to it with a message to the people of 8113 CE from Jacobs. In 1990, [[Guinness World Records]] wrote that the vault was the first genuine attempt that successfully preserved permanently a record of 20th-century cultural objects for any future inhabitants of Earth or visitors that may come to the unoccupied planet.{{sfn|Dean|2010|page=18}}