[B-R-I] Re: Challenger explodes-January 28, 1986

[Kaimbridge M. GoldChild]

It was my first day interning at WMJX/WMEX (then at 330 Stuart 
St), in the production department under Peter Fenstermacher 
(IIRC, Peter Smyth was still just head of the sales dept.), and I 
was inquiring about “where was the newsroom, again?” (it was 
literally a closet! P=).  Lana Jones and Rod Fritz (I *think* he 
was already there by then) were in the news dept. (I don't 
remember if it was Rod or someone else anchoring that morning), 
when someone came rushing through, "Everyone out of the newsroom 
area, the Challenger just exploded!".
I remember all of the station secretaries were standing around, 
glued to the TV monitor (I think CBS was on with live coverage).
One of the things that stand out in memory of that day was 
heading home that afternoon at South Station (taking the train 
back to Dean Jr. College in Franklin) around 5pm and seeing a 
special edition of the Globe scattered all over the (old) South 
Station train lobby (back when The Big Dig was just starting to 
make a mess over there!).

      ~Kaimbridge~

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