During the beginning of evening rush hour on November 9, 1965, WABC radio disc jockey Dan Ingram commented on-air about the slowness of the record he was playing (Jonathan King’s pop debut “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon”). Within the next 10 minutes or so, the audio on the station halted, as power across parts of Canada and much of the Northeast went out for approximately the next 12 hours.
Frightened and confused as most of the affected populace was, it came to be characterized as “the good blackout.” According to the New York Times, “People voluntarily directed traffic, handed out candles, and settled down at Grand Central Station for a night of sleep, without much of a worry about their wallets.”
The prevailing narrative around events of the blackout eight years later, in July 1977, bear a decidedly different characterization. Much of the coverage of the 1977 blackout has focused solely on incidents of looting and other violence. Oscar-nominated director Sam…
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