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  1. American Experience: The Blackout

    American Experience: The Blackout

    2015 · Documentary · 52m

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  1. Jul 14, 2015 · Blackout. As Wednesday, July 13, 1977 dawned hot and humid, New Yorkers prepared themselves for another sweltering day. It was the first day of a nine-day heat wave that would become the...

  2. Blackout, Chapter 1. July 14, 1977 dawned hot and humid in New York City. By 9:30pm the city would be plunged into darkness for more than 24 hours. In the wake of the power outage, tensions that...

    • 8 min
  3. On the night of July 13, 1977, lightning strikes took out several critical power lines, causing a catastrophic power failure and plunging some 8 million people into darkness in the New...

    • 30 sec
  4. Jul 14, 2015 · Blackout: Directed by Callie T. Wiser. Look back at what happened in New York City the night the lights went out in summer 1977, plunging seven million people into darkness.

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    • Documentary, Biography, History
    • Callie T. Wiser
    • 2015-07-14
  5. American Experience: The Blackout: Directed by Callie T. Wiser. A citywide power outage merged with a heat wave, a serial killer and understaffed police precincts to create a harrowing blackout in 1977 New York.

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    • Documentary
    • Callie T. Wiser
    • 2015
  6. Jul 13, 2015 · New York City saw blackouts in 1965, 1977 and 2003. Were you there? Have you been in a blackout anywhere? Share your story with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

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