The things that stand out from my earliest memories were the 6 or 8 close family friends. 2 priests and 5 or 6 seminarians who had been a year or longer in seminary for the priesthood. The priests went from strict to brainwashed modernists seemingly over night in my memory and all 5 or 6 seminarians left the seminary - this was roughly between 1967 and 1969. By then, the changes were already introduced and the mechanics of the revolution firmly in place and operating as planned. It was more than just the Mass they destroyed and nobody really suspected or knew any thing about what was happening.
There was no internet or even live news far as I remember so there was no way of knowing that the same thing that happened to our priest and seminary friends was happening all over the world - pretty much staged out in waves of sorts.
I won't elaborate on the close relatives that went full out and head long with the changes while my folks tried to remain true to the faith as much as was possible in those confusing times. Needless to say, thanks to the changes, in only a short span of time, we found ourselves without any relatives or close friends.
By 1968 or 1969 after traveling the the state looking for the Mass and not being able to locate one anywhere for months, my folks happened across Fr. Bonfil - he was the priest who handed off the baton to Fr. Ward, the SSPX's first priest in the USA. Anyway, before Fr. Ward, we assisted at Masses in basements, banquet halls, living rooms, hotels etc wherever the true Mass happened to be at the time - the list goes on - all the while keeping a low profile so as not to be discovered by the Bishops or priests of the NO. Whenever news got out that some group here or there was celebrating a traditional Mass, *without fail*, the worst condemners were the NO Church Authorities via the things they said about us radical disobedient dissenters in the popular media. Half jokingly they used to say we were in the catacombs to avoid persecution from "our own".
I remember my mom trying to locate a priest here and a priest there who she had found out was kicked out of their rectory, sometimes for as little as questioning the NO, others were kicked right out into the cold for refusing to say the new mass at all - there's your new springtime for you - freaking lies then and now. Mind you, at that time, my mom was really trying to only find out WTH was happening. She knew the changes were wrong, she didn't really find out just how wrong and how bad till maybe 1970 or 71.
I remember the first time CITH was committed - mainly I recall gasps coming from the pews and the look of horror on many peoples faces when the priest handed the host to someone standing in line while he was smiling telling the person it was ok, egging on the person to take the host, and he did. IMO, all who were there at that mass knew that was a sacrilegious act, yet the revolution was still only gaining steam.
I remember my mom pleading with a priest to say the nuptial Mass for my sister's wedding at one of the diocesan cathedrals - the priest did it but because of the Bishop's temporary absence, he did it without the Bishop's permission or consent (accidentally on purpose imo) ....................the priest wept during that mass, because, as he said, "at the beauty he'd completely forgotten" ...............a few weeks later he was gone, "re-assigned" with no warning or explanation - and far as I remember, no one ever did find out where he was sent.
I remember many gross injustices that befell many good priests at the hands of their NO superiors. Many slanderous and lying accusations were leveled against good priests - that's all it ever took to get rid of them it seems. To be faithful to the true faith and Mass back in the late 60s early 70s meant you remained "underground" and as much as possible, out of the public's eye - otherwise you could expect to suffer the wrath, not the support, of the NO authorities. In my mind, the NO will always remain anti-tradition and anti-Catholic because of what I saw them do to pious people and otherwise good priests and nuns.
I do find it odd that there is very little as far as videos or even news accounts on the web - seems there should be much more written history about those injustices as well as what it actually took to for the NO authorities to destroy the faith of millions along with the Mass and perpetrate the NO all over the world.
Anyway, what I posted are a few experiences as I remember them from that period.