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9 November 1965 · Pittsburgh

The lights go out

KDKA reports the Northeast blackout

1 minFrom Disaster and the Wire

Thirty million people across the north-east and Ontario lost power in thirteen minutes, and for most of them a battery radio was the only functioning piece of infrastructure in the house. Fifty-four seconds of a station doing the job the medium was invented for.

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