title: Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast
author:  Kenneth Hite 
description: This anthology of the first year of "Suppressed Transmission" contains 34 of those original columns and more, including annotations, "stuff Ken left out," and an extensive bibliography.
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  Destroyer 93: Terminal Transmission
  
  By Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
  
  Chapter 1
  
  The greatest domestic crisis since the Civil War struck the United States of
  America at exactly 6:28 p.m. Daylight Savings Time on the last Thursday in
  April.
  
  Approximately thirty million citizens scattered throughout the nation and in
  Mexico and the lower reaches of Canada saw the crisis unfold on their
  television sets. And every one of them, no matter what broadcast station or
  network they were tuned to, UHF or VHF, saw the exact same thing.
  
  A dead black rectangle where a moment before busy phosphor pixels had been
  generating kaleidoscopic images of entertainment, information, and
  commercials.
  
  The blackness was relieved by thin white letters in the upper right-hand
  corner. The letters spelled out two words.
  
  The words: NO SIGNAL.
  
  TV speakers everywhere, in private homes, in hospitals, in offices, in
  neighborhood ba