 With just nine minutes left, Ford, Carter, 1976, the sound died. Took 27 minutes for the sound to get up. Now, here's the interesting thing. Anchor Harry Reasoner went on to say, look, this is not a conspiracy against Governor Carter or President Ford. But while they worked on it, scrambling around, trying to put it together and get it back on the air, both of them stood there and didn't move. They almost looked like they were frozen in time.