The Night the Lights Went Out (Nov. 9, 1965)
From The Daily Muster · 10:44
Show by Edward Parcaut
At rush hour, 30 million people suddenly lost their lights. The Daily Muster: one story from American history, every day. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:09 Borrowed Power 2:01 5:16 and Eleven Seconds 3:21 Dominoes 4:43 Underground 5:35 By the Light of the Moon 7:00 The Harder Question SOURCES - American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara): Lyndon B. Johnson, Memorandum Concerning the Power Failure in the Northeastern United States, November 9, 1965: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorandum-concerning-the-power-failure-the-northeastern-united-states - American Presidency Project: Statement by the President in Response to Federal Power Commission Report on the Northeastern Electric Power Blackout, December 6, 1965: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-president-response-federal-power-commission-report-the-northeastern-electric - American Presidency Project: The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch, December 6, 1965 (Joseph Swidler presents the FPC report): https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/the-presidents-news-conference-the-lbj-ranch-5 - North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC): Milestones, NERC Reliability Standards: https://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Resources/Documents/Milestones_NERC_Reliability_Standards.pdf - Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC): About NPCC (founding after the 1965 blackout): https://www.npcc.org/about - Invention & Technology (American Heritage): Learning from the Big Blackouts: https://www.inventionandtech.com/node/86788 - Baruch College, CUNY, NYC Data: Northeast Blackouts: https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/blackouts-northeast.html - WABC-TV (ABC7 New York): Look Back, Blackout of 1965 Plunged 30 Million into Darkness: https://abc7ny.com/post/blackout-1965-file-footage/1075637/ - WBUR Boston: Northeast blackout 50th anniversary (Nov. 9, 2015): https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/11/09/northeast-blackout-anniversary - History News Network (University of Richmond): on New York's 1965 and later blackouts (crime, Udry birth study): https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/1633 New episode every morning at 7 a.m. Eastern. Follow the show so it's waiting for you. Watch with archival photos and maps on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDailyMuster Every episode on the calendar: https://dailymuster.com Narrated with an AI clone of the host's own voice. The Daily Muster is supported by Parcaut Supply Co., veteran-owned apparel: https://parcautsupplyco.com
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