Today, 11/22/63 - JFK Assassination
I was a newbie WE Installer on a Pacific Bell Tandem Switch growth build, in San Rafael, CA, Marin County only a few months working for Western Electric Installation. A crew of a dozen or so, when the switch suddenly got really, really noisy, busy from the heavy call rate.
We were pulled off the job, hung around in the parking lot a while, listening to the radio in one of the guy's cars, then sent home. "Condition Blue", National Emergency, protect all communications...They had to use Line Load Control in the switch to keep it from locking up form being overloaded, so for a while, only emergency, government lines were allowed through...
We carpooled, so off we went, spent the day back home watching it all unfold, stunned... It was a couple days before they let us back on the job... Sad times...