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Nov. 22, 1987
- On the night of Nov. 22, 1987, WGN’s evening news was interrupted for about 25 seconds by a man dressed in a Max Headroom mask in front of a dizzying background.
chicago.suntimes.com › 2014/11/22 › 1844555027 years ago Saturday: Chicago TV got hacked in the 'Max ...
Nov 20, 2020 · One of the most strange incidents in television broadcast history happened in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of Sunday, November 22nd, 1987. Two local stations had their broadcasts briefly interrupted on separate occasions by a video recording with a masked man behaving erratically.
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CHICAGO — One of the greatest mysteries in broadcast history remains unsolved. On November 22, 1987 someone—maybe a group of people—hijacked WGN’s signal and interrupted the 9 p.m. news....
Nov 23, 2014 · Saturday marks the 27th anniversary of one of history’s most bizarre and legendary acts of hacking: the Max Headroom Incident. On the night of Nov. 22, 1987, WGN’s evening news was interrupted ...
Jul 7, 2015 · At 9:14PM on November 22, 1987, the regularly scheduled programming at WGN Chicago, a local news station in Illinois, was interrupted. The screen hissed and burped, materializing into...
On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.
Sep 28, 2017 · hijack (v.) by 1922 (perhaps c. 1918), American English, of unknown origin; perhaps from high(way) + jacker "one who holds up" (agent noun from jack (v.)). In early use "to rob (a bootlegger, smuggler, etc.) in transit;" sense of "seize an aircraft in flight" is 1968 (also in 1961 variant skyjack ), extended 1970s to any form of public ...
Jan 23, 2023 · The earliest uses of hijack that I have found come from Oklahoma in 1915–16, with the earliest referring to hijackings of trucks carrying liquor. Interestingly, from what I gather by reading these early newspaper accounts, since Oklahoma was a “dry” state where possession of liquor itself was illegal, stealing it was not actually a ...
