Quotes taken from The Tank Trapeze / Jerry Cornelious by Micheal Moorcock 1968

02.15     All telephone lines between Vienna and Czechoslavia were cut

03.45     Prague Radio and some of its transmitters were off the air

03.30     Russian troops took up positions outside Prague Radio building

03.45     Soviet tanks and armoured cars surround the party Central Commitees building in  Prague

0.47        Prague Radio went off the air completely

04.20      The Soviet Tass Agency said that Soviet troops had been called into Czechoslovak by Czechoslovak leaders

04.45      Prague Radio came back on air and urged the people of Prague to heed only the legal voice of Czechoslovakia . It repeated the request not to resist . " We are capable of defending these frontiers " it said .

06.25      Russian troops began shooting at Czechoslovak demonstrators outside the Prague Radio building

06.30     Prague television station occupied

07.00     President Svoboda made a personal appeal over the radio for calm . He said he could offer no explanation for the invasion .

10.00     The Czechoslovak agency Ceteka said that at least ten ambulances had arrived outside the Prague radio station , where a Soviet tank was on fire

11.15      PragueRadio said " The occupation has already cost twenty five lives "

12.28      President Svoboda was under restriction in the central Committee building....

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