I was working for Atlantic Bank of New York at this time, and my office was on the 106th floor of 2 WTC (South Tower). I called in late that morning, told my boss I expected to be there by 11 AM because I had to drive my brother to the airport in Newark. Every single person I worked with, aside from 2 others who were out sick, had perished. Had I actually made it in by 8 AM as scheduled, I would’ve been dead. The thought still haunts me to this day.
If you’re ever on a jury, never convict a person based on eyewitness testimony alone. Many people interviewed in this video got the details of events wrong.
a lot of over subscription on their testimony due to high emotions i think. one lady said the second plane was a “smaller jet, DEFINITELY a smaller jet”
A memorable event.. never to forget what happened that day. Feels like yesterday. This is going to be bizarre, but on the night of September 10th (2023), I had a dream of a another terrorist attack.
The GMA version (I believe it was GMA, or maybe it was CBS) is really creepy. I dont recall the anchor's name at the time, About 30-40 minutes before the first plane it, he said "It's a quiet morning. Too quiet." And not even an hour later, the first plane crashed. It's weird tho too to see the pre-9/11 America literally minutes before it happened. So surreal. The last time of peace before this current era of distrust and anger.
@@frajoladellagato Yes I think you're right!! Thank you lol I've tried finding that clip again and I can't seem to find it. But I think it was him lol thank you
I'm surprised that people thought it was a small plane. If you look at the size of the hole, it's obvious that it was a big plane. There's no way a small plane could do that much damage to such a large building.
Well, we know different now. But at the time people only say what they think they saw. Lots of cameras were pointed at the towers, no one said 'look, there's another plane'. First they knew about it was when it exploded.
As scary as this seems in hindsight, it's easy to forget just how much more terrifying it was in the moment. We didn't know who was doing it. We didn't know who would be next or where. Everyone was evaluating where they lived to figure out if it was a likely target. Everyone was confused and suspicious of others. The uncertainty is something it's difficult to get the younger folks today to understand. It was just horrific.
Everyone was used to Hijackers taking the plane somewhere and asking for ransom for the Kidnapped , not Kill themselves and anyone else . The Airports changed from just get on board to total shake down of everyone and what is in the Bags. My 85 yo Grandma couldnt take knitting needles on flight
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575living in Tampa Bay, we were definitely worried with MacDill AFB right here. It was and still is the CENTCOM for all military Middle East operations. There were several rumors of attacks planned to hit the base.
Yeah i skipped out of class after the Pentagon was hit. I was a senior in high school. The first class i walked into at 8am (9am ny) i saw the 2nd plane hit live. My geography teacher was always a happy go lucky guy, but that day we were all talking over the TV and he literally told us to shut the fuck up. After a couple of classes it was clear the entire country was watching. The whole day for me could best be described as an anxious excitement. Couldnt believe what was happening, freaking out looking into the sky waiting for planes to fall. It wasnt till my friends dad said after the 1st tower fell with his hands on his head, "do you know how many people we just watched die?" He had tears in his eyes and this guy was a bulldog of a man. Thats when the gravity of it really hit home. I still remember the clothes I was wearing 22 years later. Its one day that ill never forget a moment of.
We have the gift of hindsight. A terrorist attack like this had never occurred before, so it was confusing to a lot of people. Unlike these days, unwarranted fear-mongering and finger pointing was not acceptable from news networks.
Sorry but that's not an excuse. Hindsight has nothing to do with that particular situation. Two planes hitting the same place that was attacked in 93, within 18 minutes of each other? Sorry, no its not a question in my mind, and like I said, Hindsight is not a player in it.
@@TitaniumTurbineI was 17 years old and when I saw the 2nd plane hit and knew 100% that this was no accident. I was already suspicious of the first one. Gumball was and still is very ignorant.
I was at work in Philadelphia. Someone said a plane hit the Twin Tower. Then she screamed when the 2nd tower was hit. My husband pulled out a small tv, B/W. All morning everyone ran in and out of his office to watch. I saw the second tower fall, my knees almost gave out. You never forget where you were or what you saw that day. I still remember the stories from people in the days after. Rest in Peace for those lost. Never forget 9/11/2001.
Yeah it was insane. I’m from Australia but my mum is from New York so all her family are all over New York. My uncle was supposed to be there that day but he had paperwork to do so he stayed home. I was only 11 years old and I was watching TV with my mum and there was a little message at the bottom saying a plane hit the world trade centre but me and my mum thought was just a really small plane or something like that and then we went to bed. Next morning it was just all over the news, so sad :(
@@patwaddington I remember a lot of stories like your Uncle's, something kept them from being in the buildings that day. Thank God your Uncle had paperwork to do. I remember one young woman was fired on Monday the 10th, she spoke to the news people about it. Take care.
You have to understand how reporters are taught. He has to ask those questions in order to get the explanations following on recording he is also in shock. Hard to believe I know but reporters are people lol
@@joeyplaysps4 I understand what you are saying. When you are literally watching a live feed of what's happening. and they are asking idiotic questions, it's just frustrating. At 1:12:10 , two planes have smashed into the twin towers, one tower has just collapsed, and dan rather said, and I quote "There are known injuries, how many? Much too soon to know, and whether there is any death or not, it is too soon to know." Mind you at this time, we have all seen people jumping to their deaths from the buildings. I guess the obvious question is, why are the reporters taught this way?
No. Those are the days when reporters, especially the top tier, almost never reported opinion…only facts. as uncomfortable as that may seem, it’s how they were trained and it kept things mostly unclouded. As obvious as it probably was to them, just the facts ma’am. very different these days
@@qwipperty no man I have been annoyed by this moronic performance by Bryant Gumbel for the past 23 years. This man just decided that he was the Smartest person on Planet Earth and he refused to believe ANY of the eyewitnesses until he saw it for himself. It's a very unlikable piece of tape for gumbel
I’m born in 2003, and am a New firefighter/Emt. Even tho I wasn’t alive to see this day unfold, it still hits home and makes me cry every year, and every time I watch these videos. Rest in peace to all the civilians and First responders.
CBS, by far, had the worst live coverage of this event. Between Bryant Gumbel, not understanding at all what was going on, to Dan rather talking over the first tower falling. Did he not have his producer in his ear? How could he have done this? This is so frustrating to watch.
Dan wasn't really listening to anyone, he had reporters telling him on air that the first tower had totally came down. And he just kept saying a section, a portion, and not until the second tower collapse, that Dan finally got it right. While everyone in front of a TV could see it
“And why do you say it was deliberate?” Gee, I don’t know Bryant, maybe because it’s the second plane to hit the buildings! Can’t believe he’s a reporter. So dim witted. And so exasperating to listen to. You could tell the people giving their accounts are surprised he’s even questioning what the pilot’s intent was at this point.
My go to channels were 4 NBC and 7 ABC, so I was going back and forth between them and CNN. When the tower with the antenna went down, everything went but CBS. I was stuck with them for a few days before we got back service. CBS was God awful. Some woman I had never seen before started to say horribly racist and xenophobic things about our fellow citizens. I couldn't believe it. To their credit, she suddenly disappeared, and I never saw her again on any network.
I'm not sure you guys understand how unthinkable it was back then that someone would fly a plane into a skyscraper. Gumbel not immediately taking the witnesses at their word makes sense for the time he was in. Especially since so many of them got other details wrong.
Was 19 years old and a PFC in the Army, having gone to basic training on Sept 20th the previous year. This moment in time in my life is forever etched into my mind, replayed like it was just yesterday. I will forget my own name before I forget what it was like to be a young soldier on the morning of 9/11.
Like my brother, his 1st year in the Air Force. I thought he would for sure get deployed and it would be WW3…they didn’t deploy him, even with the Iraqi war. May all those souls rest in peace.
22 years ago, I was 18 and flippant about seeing this footage. I had to get to class, and didn't understand why my mom was crying. Today, I watch it and tears are finally streaming down my face. This truly was an insane thing to shape our lives.
At 18 you didn't understand why you mom was crying?? What pissed me off the most was when people started diving out the windows.. That did me in, I became extremely pissed to a point that I called the marines an I demanded to be sent to war at the age of 29... They hung up.. Of course they did, but if they said yes, I would have went
@@CALLAHAN19 Ya I actually joined the infantry shortly after a failed theatre college diploma. However I did it cause I love the army, not because I love what the army does. I was slated to go to Iraq and pulled out cause my gf had giant bazooms and didn't want to live anywhere I'd be stationed. Also I'm averse to the concept of killing people who are largely innocent and afraid, or confused. I don't really agree with nation building and ya - I didn't understand why she cried. I didn't understand why she cared about a country hopelessly embroiled in international affairs for profit. I don't think people should lose their lives over money.
This was 1 of those days where you will always remember where you were, your age & who you were with, I remember coming home from school and my parents sitting in the living room, crying and in shock, I remember the horrifying images that were on the news and how helpless we felt. We didn't know anyone in NY but we cared and felt such despair watching the events unfold and the tragedy that was 9/11. I'll never forget that day or the countless stories of heroes, the faces of those who died and many of their names. It's something I think about often, not just on the anniversary. I sincerely hope those who died are resting in peace and their loved ones are doing okay now, never the same but living a new and somewhat enjoyable life. RIP all the victims x 💜
I still remember it so vividly, I was about to turn 24. I remember it so well, that day and I'm not even American! Can't even imagine how it was for you all.
Beautiful said I remember being in downtown Chicago on 9.11..looking up at "standard oil building " it's 80 stories tall ish and can't even imagine 2 taller buildings coming down with people... peace and safe travels everyone
Yes I remember my godmother coming to pick me and my god-brother up from school early(I was in 1st grade,) against school wishes and kind of throwing us in the car, obviously distraught but we had no idea why.. Then that afternoon my parents had me and my siblings in the living room, dimly lit with candles burning as they prayed with us and continued watching the news.. I couldn’t comprehend the tragedy but I knew that it was something terrible and that my parents were really scared. Will never forget.
I flew, for only the second time in my life, in Aug 2001. My first flight was as a kid in the 80s. I remember naturally being nervous. I made a remark to my brother and mother (who were not flying, but merely seeing me off at the gate) that the airport terminal seemed like a free for all. Things had been so peaceful for so long, that airport security was super lax. I, of course, had no idea this would happen weeks later.
I was working in an EMS dispatch center on the west coast of Florida. I'd just come in from a break and they had CNN up on the projector against the wall. We were busy but watching like everyone else. Everyone in the room were EMTs/Paramedics/Firefighters, it was a requirement. When the first tower went down the room got real quiet as all of us knew that a bunch of people doing what we do every day when we were in the field just died. RIP to those heroes.
I was 19 when this happened......seeing the people on the news shows that aired before the towers were attacked, carrying on normal lives, reminds me of how innocent and simple life seemed pre 911. I'm probably in the minority because I wasn't even able to see the events that day on TV until after the towers had fallen. Due to having to be on a military funeral detail. We didn't even see the first images until we were at a rest stop at about 1pm. Way before smartphones. I can imagine how much crazier this would have been if everyone had smartphones back then.....
Well, a lot of my relatives had cellphones and what a lot of them were finding is they were jammed. Everybody was trying to call everybody else, and the transmitters got overloaded. The same thing happened with email and online chat. A lot of providers installed new larger servers after that.
I was in Bahrain working for UPS. I was returning to the office after a sales call and a crowd gathered outside our office watching the LCD so I wanted to see what was going on. The people of the Gulf were in shock and people started in that week that proceeded putting American flags on their cars.
14:36 Regular people are not trained to judge size accurately from a distance, especially if they do not have a point of reference - hence, they thought it was a small plane. From their standpoint, their brain tells them the tower and plane are two objects that are smaller then they really are. You have to really stop and think about it. The plane hit spanned 4+ floors of the tower, but people cannot correlate 4 floors of that building to 4 floors of the building where they are standing, which would make that a HUUUUGE airplane! This is why UFO reports need to always be approach with skepticism.
I was 19 years old when this happened, just came back from a tennis class just before 9am. Only the North tower had been hit at that time. My roommate at the time was listening to the radio and we listened together. Every year, I revisit these videos. This has left a lifelong mark on every American who was alive at the time.
I’m now 63 years old and I can tell you exactly where I was and I was watching it on TV when it happened and I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. All of my thoughts to the family friends and loved ones of these people.❤
I was actually a producer, working at a Fox affiliate in Las Vegas. Ironically, i had scheduled that day off so I could offer support for my sister and brother in law. They were taking their 4 yr old to a neurosurgeon for her newly diagnosed brain tumor. I sat in that waiting room, trying to keep my little nephew entertained... watching the horror unfold on the bank of tv's... As horror was unfolding as that brain surgeon laid out what would happen to my niece. Such a surreal feeling watching multiple tragedies play out. Terrible, horrific, nightmarish day... that's every bit as fresh today as it was 22 years ago.
@@lagarde2011 How nice of you to ask!! After a relapse 4 yrs later... she ( Thank God a million times over, ) is now 26 yrs old, and is a ROCK STAR of a human being. She has packed more in her life than a stadium full of people. I'm 25 yrs older than her... but look up to her everyday! 🙏💪❤️
Gumbel was USELESS all morning. Didn't know that the buildings were oriented North and South. Didn't think to ask for other camera angles. Kept sticking with "man on the street" interviews, when they clearly knew nothing and asking them stupid questions repeatedly. Didn't recognise a close-up of the Pentagon. He so desperately needed a co-anchor! CBS did a crap job of coverage and got just about every bit of information EXACTLY WRONG. Where are the knowledgeable New Yorkers? Where are the building close-ups?
It’s interesting that the hotel right next to the towers was evacuating everyone out of the building. There are reports of people being told to not leave the building in the second tower as it was dangerous outside/just an emergency in the other tower
One company decided to evaluate from tower 2 despite what they said and except of couple of people everyone survived and they had several hundred employers (could have been more than 1000 I don't quite remember). There where other companies decided to stay though and they lost all or almost all employers. Even a company where they got down and then decided to take the elevator back up and all died. So it was important too who ever was in charge of fire on the floor or the company if people decided to follow orders or not. There are always some who do what they want but usually majority of people seem to follow orders and why it's so important that those who are in charge and give orders really consider what they are saying, you really are responsible for lives (I wouldn't want to make those decisions). Of course here they probably thought it was an accident and thought this was the safety option, sadly it was the wrong decision but I wouldnt plane whoever gave the orders. Though one thing I blame them for, they lied that the fire on tower 1 was contained, I understand not wanting to cause panic but this likely led to people not understanding the seriousness and then not able to make the best decision for themselves.
I would normally have been in my office at work at that time, but I just happened to have an early sales call that day and I was home watching this unfold live. I will never forget the sick feeling in my stomach when that 2nd plane hit. I knew it was no longer an accident.
I imagine that the people living on the West coast who awoke at 7:30 PST would have turned on their TV's and entire, horrific event would have just ended, just 2 minutes earlier, after the second tower (1) came down. What a terrible day, may the victims of 9/11 RIP. We will never forget.❤🌹
My first memory of being 18 and out of high school. This is never forgotten or any easier to process and remember. I’ve visited the 9/11 memorial several times. Still no closure and it’s unfathomable to think that I stood on the very ground where this happened. Never forget. 343 firefighters, 2,997 lives lost.
14:00 - This was when my neighbor and I, a rookie cop that I'd run next door to wake up and watch news with, sat for a solid minute in total silence-I noticed this grown man on the couch next to me had pulled his knees up and was hugging his legs to his chest like a child. It was the moment we realized it was all on purpose. It was surreal.
That was Bryant Gumbal. He wasn’t that bright. Everyone knew when the second plane hit we were under attack. Terrorism was definitely in the realm of possible. Bin Laden had attacked the WTC a few years ago and had attacked an American navy ship a few months before end of Bill Clinton’s term. Clinton was a coward and nothing did about that attack
@@ChateauJuice Also, they're typically not watching the same feed as what's being broadcast. For production reasons, what's on the monitors on set is often different.
I'm from Liverpool and remember arriving home after shopping in the city center and put the TV on. Every channel had this live news on and just remember footage of the first tower in flames. Remember people on the news initially saying it was an accident and then I watched the 2nd plane hit. I just sat there numb and couldn't believe what was unfolding. All those poor people and families losing loved ones. We'll never forget this day. Praise to those heroic emergency services who did everything to help that day. They will forever be remembered...not the evil scum who carried out these cowardly attacks. R.I.P. to all those poor souls.
@@luxembourgerPeople havn't forgotten Titanic by far, and that was 111 years ago, that was by far less horrific and world-changing than 9/11. Very ignorant statement. Heck, the Wall Street crash in '29 is still remembered.
Still crazy to me how it was handled so horribly by many in charge. So many were threatened to be fired if they left rhe building, the announcements that everything was ok and to go back to work. 😔 So many more could have survived had they been allowed to leave.
I wouldn't say the ones in charge handled it poorly, more like handled to the best of their abilities. You have to remember at the time there was no known threat to the South tower and as such it would not have made any sense to complicate the evacuation of the North tower and impair the ability of first responders to access the building by having thousands upon thousands of people evacuating the South tower unnecessarily.
My condolences to the lives lost on that day and the continuous loss through long term injury and contamination. I wonder how the people who made media commentary are doing all these 22 years later. GOD BLESS You all were so informative and heart felt.
The ABC reporter also didn’t say it was intentional for an unbelievably long time, but at least he had a reason to. It’s clear in that coverage that rather than jumping to conclusions”it’s terrorism”, he simply doesn’t want to think of it as that.
I was 20 and helping to get our drive-thru only restaurant ready for business for the day. A supervisor walked in carrying a radio and had it tuned to 87.7 FM, which correlated to our local CBS channel and that CBS was doing a special report saying the towers had been hit. We all listened while continuing to get the restaurant ready. I’ll never forget those details of that somber day. *😔*
Never forget. I was 19 and lived on the other side of the country in my state capitol. A friend of mine lived a few hours away near military storage facilities. We were terrified and didn't know what was going to happen.
It is currently 9:08 EST on the day of the 22nd anniversary and I'm watching this with so the times are lined up. I'm not sure why I am, but I am. Never forget.
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I was in my 7th grade geography class. Cell phones were more for emergencies for middle/low income people. Our teacher's cell phone rang in class and he took it. Everyone in class knew it was an emergency. Everyone in class knew it was bad because we just watched our teacher look heartbroken at us as he listened to whatever the person told him on the phone. He got off the phone and said there was a terrorist attack in New York. No one in class knew what terrorism meant. It wasn't a part of our vocabulary. The bell rang for the next class. For a while, all the TVs came on in school to show everyone what was happening. By then, I was in the library for my Science Class. The librarians turned off the TVs. You could tell the teachers were really freaked out. After school, all the TV channels, even Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, were showing the towers burning. The radio was talking about the towers. RU-vid didnt exist, so the only way to escape the footage as a child was to play a video game or listen to a CD. I lived near a military base and everything shut down and everyone sent home. No one knew who knew if/when they could return to work.
@QueenofVHS @QueenofVHS the channels are owned by bigger corporations, like Viacom. So, Viacom forced all their channels to show 9/11 footage. Most of it was from ABC, CBS, and others. You are referring to the post-9/11 promos they did. But, on the day of 9/11, every channel, including kids channels and MTV, had live 9/11 coverage.
I was 17 at the time. I remember the most important channel showing it here in Brazil without stopping. I didn't know what was going on, but we knew it was something serious. When we realized what was that and the number of people who have died that day I knew world would change. 22 years after that here I am remembering it
Remember when things were normal. It passed away on this very day. Hate will never win but hate does cause us scars in our society. Rest in Peace to all the innocent lives taken away for hateful actions.
I think the hardest part of watching this isn’t just seeing people dying, but knowing what path it would lead us down in response. 9/11 took our country to a dark place we still haven’t been able to crawl out of
@@jayfron6012 I agree man. America changed that day. They say the terrorists did it because “they hate us for our freedoms”. Bullsh*t. They hate us because our government does things like those they did in response to this
It’s so hard to believe that 2 hours before that happened everyone was living normal lives and 2 hours later when crashed everything and everyone changed
“Five letters, five impossible dreams. Five wishes that came true.” I was 12 years old, running for student council vice-president at a religious day school. During the election, a lady wheeled in a TV from the lounge. Entire classrooms of children watched this live. One kid said something about this being the start of World War III. A few hours later, my dad came over to pick me up and take me home. I didn’t expect him to do that, nor did I request it. I don’t recall if any other parents showed up before he did. I was repeatedly asking my teacher “Did I win?” and she would keep telling me that I did. We left after that. On my way out, my dad would tell me that I would remember this day for the rest of my life. There was a carpool outside of the school, of the other parents waiting to pick their kids up. I would spend the rest of the day at the house watching this live, and the gravity of the moment completely sank in when I tried to take a break. I went to another room to see what else was on, and just about every other TV station that wasn’t Nick or Disney was either replaying the same horrific footage, or displaying an off-the-air card with sad piano music in the background.
I just want you to know, you're a great writer and this is a great piece. I love how you started with that quote from the beginning, right before the breaking news. That was such a cool decision and very poignant. You better keep writing. 🤝 I'd be legitimately upset if you didn't lol.
Such a terrible day, it demonstrates the depths of evil that terrorists will stoop to. I think that those of us who are old enough to remember this event will remember what we were doing on September 11th 2001. I am in the UK but still deeply affected by this utter tragedy and heinous crime.
In hindsight, it's interesting to note that Dan Rather talked for many minutes after Tower 2 collapsed and thanks to the grainy poor quality video reproduction level of the day it wasn't being reported. Apparently it took some considerable time for that network to be notified of the collapse.
Total collapse was far from anyones mind at the time, it was not something people expected at all. Combined with shock, If you did not see it live first hand, it was very confusing and hard to grasp.
Right there, live...person is watching and seeing a plane fly into the building..."it was not a commercial plane, it was definitely a smaller plane". This is why people are horrible witnesses. They have no idea what they are seeing but are very sure they did.
This day always gives me a pit in my stomach but I can’t help but watch the news every year. No way I can ever listen to any of the tapes of the plane audio. I can not imagine the feeling of those passengers.
After watching back most of the news coverage of this tragedy, with the benefit of hindsight and historical context, I believe this broadcast probably had the most inaccurate reporting and eyewitness testimonies overall in the moment. Gumble was also very apprehensive on air about whether the crashes were deliberate or not even after both towers were hit. At some point, I think common sense has to take over.
Agree. He says the 2nd plane hit "the north side of the westernmost tower". His orientation was totally reversed. It was the south side of the south(southeast) tower. Also said hitting "10 to 15 stories below" but didn't say below what. Below top of tower, below the other impact. Not criticizing though, as the chaos of that day must have caused so much confusion for those trying to cover it live. Just interesting all the inaccuracies.
Seriously. You're right, we certainly have hindsight and context, but the whole hesitance around the south tower collapse - "many reports that the south tower has collapsed but we don't know that" while the images on the screen CLEARLY show the tower is completely gone? I get not wanting to put your foot in your mouth, but even in the midst of chaos, some things were very clear.
Bryant Gumble asks the most stupid questions and doesnt know the buildings were the north and south...not the east...and how would a bystander know how many people were on the first plane
Omg. I was working at my federal SSA job in Sunrise, FL (Ft Lauderdale WEST). My hubby was retired from SSA. He was home & just felt like he should watch the news that morning. Ny NY is his hometown. He saw the 2nd plane hit & was shocked! He called my cell ph & said "There's been a terrorist attack this morning. Come home now!" Our office was all glass in a strip mall (not safe!). I will say the FEDERAL GOVT immediately shut down all offices everywhere. Scary & so sad! I later had a nice lady whose 1st cousin was a missionary & was in 1 of the towers & died! So awful!
ABC’s commercial before coverage started was sad as well. it was a bump for Nightline regarding Congo and the millions who died there in the decade before
To me it seems like life before hand of 9/11 USA seemed very peaceful before the chaos unfolded and changed everything for American life forever. It was kinda after Y2K but before all this seemed unchahotic (I’m not mentioning Columbine I’m from that state) but majority of life in America seemed peaceful. That segment beforehand seemed a calm before what we are going to watch so yes, unsettling. 😥
@@GG-jn4dxthings were eerily calm that day before this happened and were relatively chilled out from Y2K until 9/11, with the most chaos probably being from the 2000 presidential election. It was just a normal Tuesday for most that morning until this came on the TV. I was 10 years old on this day and still remember things vividly.
It amazes me how long it took Bryant Gumble to realize what the hell was going on. He was so skeptical of every eyewitness account and seemed to question everything everyone was saying when it finally dawned on him that this was a terrorist attack around the 20 min mark in this video when he realizes and just says wow, wow.
For directional references to viewers. "Tower 1" and "Tower 2" don't really give a visual perspective to viewers looking at footage. Even to the firefighters inside, someone had to take a marker and draw #1 and #2 on something for the first responders. I suppose they could have used "North Tower" and "South Tower"...but most outside NYC have a better time discerning East and West since the towers were just east of the Hudson and therefore close to an East/West landmark when looking at footage.
Danish here🇩🇰 all of DK was in chok also. Our ❤ was with your ppl that day. We also still talk about it. We had terror 9 years ago and we felt the warm and comfort from others. I hope you felt that to. When disaster strikes and the world collapses, we see each other as one, and know what's important. 🤝✌️🌏
I was a young man living in a tiny rural town in the north of Sweden at the time. It was already autumn. There was a small library in this town that was open two evenings a week. The day before 9/11, I was in this library randomly looking at books. My eyes fell on the back of a Stephen King novel: The Running Man. I had read this story ten years earlier when I was still a kid. For some reason, I took the book from the shelf and read the ending. What happens is that a passanger jet purpously is being flown straight into an enourmous skyskraper in a big American city ...
Not one of those firefighters cut and ran, and they knew they were going to die when they went in. Neither did any of the other First Responders. Even the civilians helped each other. But in Uvalde, Texas, none of those men armed with guns and bullet-proof vests would go in to save those kids, and they let them die.
Honestly, the inability of the anchormen and women on that day to describe what they were literally witnessing has always bothered me. Maybe they were subconsciously trying to dissipate somewhat the full force of the events unfolding in front of their eyes, and their obvious meaning for the future to come
Not as bad as 1:13:00 when Dan Rather, having just pointed out that we're watching live images of the WTC, tries to downplay reports there has been a partial collapse of one of the towers ("maybe internal, maybe parts of the exterior"). The live image was just showing the south rtower pancake in on itself and now shows a void and a huge cloud of dust/smoke moving swiftly through Manhattan. 🙄
Was about to turn 28 worked at Univ of Penn. Just a sunny and beautiful late summer day. Never thought something so evil like this would happen in my lifetime.
I know an American chap in Norfolk uk... works on the base and at poundstretchers at 75.... lovely man..,. asked him where he was 9/11 he said his wife got a last minute interview so they had to cancel their flight.. they would have been on flight 11. That was one close call. God bless them ❤
They missed the collapse of the second tower while the transition from Bryan Gumble to Dan Rather was taking place and Dan was giving his long diatribe of a speech about what was confirmed and not confirmed, avoiding speculation, and trying to say that for most of new york life continues AS NORMAL...new york is not burning.....all that talk, yet it was OBVIOUS from the pictures that the ENTIRE building had collapsed.....not a part of the building as he incorrectly reported. But the ENTIRE building had collapsed. Dan was so insistent on getting his speech said that he missed the OBVIOUS collapse of the entire buikding. All that talk about avoiding speculation and waiting for confirmation......yet he missed the obvious collapse of the entire building, clearly visible on the pictures behind him as he spoke. The Bryan and Dan reporting that morning was very disappointing......and I am not saying that because of the benefit of hindsite.....I FELT that as I was viewing it LIVE.
Yes, it was hard to figure out what was happening at the moment, but this CBS special report was, by far, the most inaccurate one of all the major networks that day. When the second plane crashed, they took a long time to see that it was actually a plane. Also, when the South Tower collapsed, even more than 30 minutes later they were still saying that just part of the tower had collapsed. All the other networks had eye witnesses confirming that the whole tower had collapsed within one minute or so of the collapse. And when the second tower had already collapsed, Dan Rather was saying that "it was on the process of collapsing." They had to see the videotape to realize what had happened.
Gumbel having the nerve to ask that witness why she thought it was deliberate when a plane crashed into the other tower not 20 minutes prior on a perfectly clear day... unbelievable.
@@wet-read I agree. Maybe he was trying to be clear on why people were saying it was deliberate but he came across as confrontational and as if he didn’t believe what the witnesses were saying.
As someone who observed this tragedy at a distance, this news segment perfectly encapsulates what most of us actually experienced that morning. Not only the panic and hysteria, but the coordinated effort to disseminate and contextualize these events as they were happening in real time. It was a confluence of all facets of society - culture, technology, politics - all poignantly synthesized at a specific moment in history.
The first eye witness gave a great description of the events. I wish I could have said the same about Bryant Gumble, but his audience didn't figure out what happened until September 13th.
@@andyfoxy3140 Relative to the Gumble confusion, he gave a consistent description of what he witnessed. Big plane or not, the key detail was a plane crashed into the North Tower. He didn't make any assumptions or talk about anything he didn't directly witness.
The poor FBI agent in Arizona who detected the terrorists training but no one would listen because the FBI was unable to talk to the CIA because of a new and really, really bad law.
Thank Jaime Gorelick who was instrumental in creating the communication wall between the CIA and FBI, and who also had a major role in Fannie Mae collapsing, she received huge bonuses for collapsing Fannie Mae, she was basically the grim reaper.
@@A-FrameWedgereading her bio she is an example of the swamp that needs to be eradicated, represented kushner in his conflict of interest case, was part of the 911 commission when she definitely should have recused herself and that Fannie mae thing is horrible and she took several million in compensation while she was there being objectively terrible
That and egotism with the CIA by thinking they can do better. Which is one of the harms can do for America's public services and needs. They put their own pride ahead first while national security, last
I wasn’t born then but I know how people reacted to this incident RIP to those impacted and that didn’t make it Thank you Lord for protecting those who made it out
It was traumatizing. I was a junior at university and I seen the planes hit live on good morning America… the people screaming and then victims leaping to their deaths was outrageous. Even today I have not forgotten a single detail of that tragic morning.
I can't believe there are people old enough to drink that weren't even born yet. I was in 9th grade history when we were told about it and the rest of the day was pretty much suspended
It was the most prolific devastation that has happened in our lifetimes at the time.. We all know where we were what we were doing, what was going on in our minds. How scared we all were.
Me too. I think most people who have not expierienced it usually aren't affected by it too much. This has always been horrifying for me.. I feel lucky I wasn't alive.
