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Then the national mood shifted. America wept. From the White House to farmhouses, Americans joined in mourning their common loss. Flags were lowered to half-staff. Makeshift signs appeared in countless cities: WE SALUTE OUR HEROES. GOD BLESS THEM ALL. President Reagan, in a moving broadcast to the nation that afternoon, paraphrased a sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, a young American airman killed in World War II: "We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch...
America's agony drew widespread sympathy around the world. In Moscow, a somber TV announcer spoke factually about the disaster as videotapes of the aborted flight were broadcast throughout the Soviet Union. American music, including old Glenn Miller recordings, were broadcast on radio. Soviet Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev quickly joined the multitude of world leaders who sent condolences to President Reagan. "We partake of your grief at the tragic death of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger," he said...
...nine minutes and counting," intoned NASA Commentator Hugh Harris over the cape's public address system. His words were also broadcast widely by radio...
...three broadcast networks broke into regular programming within six minutes and stayed on the air for more than five hours; each returned later for an hour-long prime-time special. (The commercial-free coverage cost the networks an estimated $9 million in lost advertising revenue. ABC switchboards also fielded more than 1,200 complaints about pre-empted soap operas...
Less than 24 hours later, Radio Lesotho opened its morning broadcast with a loud burst of the national anthem and a terse announcement that Jonathan's government had been overthrown and replaced with a military council headed by Major General Justin Lekhanya, 47. The country's King Moshoeshoe II, 47, remained head of state and was given additional powers beyond his ceremonial role...