I hope I’m not boring you younger people. (Nadine & Others).
A couple of days after the assassination and things were returning from chaos.
It cost my company 100,000 per minute for lost Video that ABC,NBC and CBS billed us for.
Our secretary was doing our time cards. The special circuits supervisor told her he had worked twenty five hours the first day. And she said no, I paid you for 24 hours and one hour overtime on the next day. He insisted that he be paid for 25 hours. She said I can’t do that, as there is only 24 hours in a day. The poor guy went ballistic and they carted him off. We never saw him again. We heard he had a nervous breakdown and was unable to work anymore. This sad situation affected one heck of a lot of people.
This lost communication will not happen again in an emergency, the telephone companies knew what went wrong and fixed it.
What did I do in Oct. 1963.... Havn't got a clue.