September 11 Channel Surfing (2001) 

Espn was showing sports. I was surprised to see that!

I am curious what the process was - did you initially record this on TiVo? What did you use to convert it?

@@abzd9828 For the initial recording, almost certainly a VHS or Betamax VCR was used which allows you to changes channels while recording.

also near the beginning he changes the tape speed from EP to SP for higher quality, so probably VHS @@rkgsd

I remember asking my dad about it for school in 2002. It was a pretty basic reaction, honestly. He was in the Army at the end of the Cold War so he had never really seen death. I was starting 6th grade in 2001 and I remember many teachers refusing to turn on the TV, but other teachers thought it was important to show the kids what was happening. Kids in my class were crying cuz they didn't know what was going-on, other than a panicked announcement from the principal on the PA system. Some kids were afraid the school would be attacked, but others were quick to rationalize that our school was too small of a target. (Silly in retrospect, but we were 6th graders lol)

Bc fools like you are cowards and will never put your foot down to corruption and live in truth about what the hell is going on.

whats her number?

My dad once said it was really shocking for him for him to fully realize that I never lived through this ( I wouldn’t be born for another three years). He has been a reporter for the AP in South Carolina since the 90s, and he often spoke of the entire office being in complete silent shock when the special report came, and again when he saw the second plane crash into the center. Then it was immediately back to work. It was sheer chaos, calling people, gathering information, it was like that one scene in SpongeBob where SpongeBob’s brain forgot someone’s name, though obviously more sad than funny. It’s honestly very surreal that this happened so soon before I was born and yet it affected so many people before me in ways I couldn’t ever begin to imagine or understand.

I just started Sixth Grade at Huffman Middle School a month before the tragedy took place I was just 11 years old, a month away for my 12th Birthday a year before becoming a Teenager.

Thank you for you service!

@@mindyourmess4386 thank you it was my pleasure

The sirens ,threat con delta…and then what ? What was the procedure? How were you feeling? What did you do?

Mine as well. 2nd RANGER Bat. We lived on the flight line for a week. Fear and excitement, mind numbing boredom..... sigh. Seems like several lifetimes ago.

I'd say they started preparing for the absolute worst immediately.​@@samphyllobates4765

Wait, they did stop programming?

@@rodrigojogos. I could be remembering things wrong, I know many channels did

@@dbdb32. I heard a lot of kids channels actually didn’t stop programming, and I think Cartoon Network was one of them. It’s more likely that they put on more lighter fare, switched a couple of programs on the schedule or just didn’t air toonami. Because maybe I’m crazy, but I don’t think people would want to watch a show with explosions and destruction during this time. /lh That being said, if kids WB’s version of toonami existed during this time, which I’m not sure if it did or not, that did air at 3 PM and was on the WB, which is a national network of some sort that would theoretically preempt kids cartoon programming for news coverage. So maybe that was the thing that got interrupted. Hope this helps?

Me and my sisters tried to watch cartoons but it was just news news news that's it I was 11 years old and I hope your dad didn't get back drafted

I remember got back home from School to do my Homework English, Math, watching Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network

Propaganda is your greatest enemy

Legend has it, OBL was as shocked as we were watching this horror story!! 😳 #TruamatizedMe😵 and I wasn't even there!!

@@thebeatcreeper Re your incorrect data about Palestinians not dancing in the street. That did happen. Read it from reliable sources living in Israel and saw the footage. They handed out candy to celebrate. Don't try to revise history.

@@slimcutz2081 Legend? No. That is a new untruth.

Rip free. OBL was hiding in caves in Afghanistan. You want to know about it? Best DVD is Inside 9/11 by National Geographic. LOADS about OBL and Afghanistan. Then 2nd DVD focuses on the actual day of 9/11.

Not sure if you know, but did your teacher ever find out about her friend?

Bruh what’s with your channel name

@@jtgdthis

I know that, at the time, I couldn't stop watching coverage of the attacks but every so often I did flip over to see what, if anything else was happening. I was sorta paying attention to the sports channels because clearly there wasn't going to be any games played on this day and I wanted to see what their immediate responses would be( Major League Baseball cancelled their games for the rest of that week for example, the NFL postponed its games for that week also ). I was kinda peeking around to see what the reactions were to other networks that weren't news stations just to see what, if anything, and how they were reacting to the unfolding events of that day.

8 grade, damn I'm old I was 20 years old

I was in the 8 grade in Boston and didn’t go to school that day was translating for my grandmother at her appointment it was sad and quiet day

I was in 8th grade. Our school wouldn't let us know anything until my last period math teacher couldn't hold it in anymore. Can't imagine how that must have felt as an adult trying to go on teaching like normal

We need unity everyday now with Covid

@@Gonzoweirdo1 absolutely!

Guess you never saw the cheering Palestinians.

He hasn't changed. You have. You simp for the power structure now. The screens told you to. lol.

@@joshcharlottesville I’m not American 🤷

Back before his hair started leaking lmaooo

@@joshcharlottesvilleif you can’t tell the difference between this Giuliani and how he is now you need to seek immediate professional help

​@@joshcharlottesville🎯

Same here, 12 in the 7th grade 😢

I was 12 in the 6th Grade Middle School.

"...Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play" Oddly enough Paul McCartney watched the towers collapsing from a plane on the tarmac of J.F.K Airport.

I was also 11, I remember being...idk..."care free" before it all happened. Afterwards it just seems like endless anxiety, tension, kinda like always looking over your shoulder. We knew of things like this happening in other countries during the time...."but not America, things like that just don't happen here..." we were so wrong

Me too same age 11 years old Sixth Grade

@@dbdb32 I too Remember that Day, I was at my house with my four children, my 3-year-old Daughter named Zoey, my 5-year-old son named Julian, my 7-year-old Daughter named Ruth, and my 10-year-old son named Ben, My Husband Adam had just left for work, he was working as a Mechanic at a Local Auto Body Garage Fixing Cars and Trucks, I was in the kitchen washing the dishes in the Kitchen Sink, While Looking over the Island Bar that connected the Kitchen to the Living Room, in the corner of the living room, on the TV an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" was on TV (when it was on the Superstation TBS Network at the Time, and It was the Episode of when that old house that they had changed into a School for all of those Blind Kids was on Fire), Zoey was in her bedroom playing with her Toys and watching on her TV her Favorite Movie, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Julian was also in his bedroom playing with his LEGOS watching on his TV his Favorite Movie, "Treasure Planet", Ruth was in her Bedroom playing with Her Barbie Dolls, and watching Her Favorite Movie on the TV, "Monster's Inc", Ben was in His Bedroom playing with his Toys and watching His Favorite TV show on the TV "Bear in the Big Blue House", I was washing the last bowl, when the telephone rang, I answered the phone, and started talking to my friend named Sarah, I was talking to her for over an hour, until I saw something reflected on the glass picture frame glass, I looked behind me and saw this happening on TV, I asked Sarah if she was watching this, She told me that she was, we both hung up the phone, I rushed to Zoey, Julian, Ruth, and Ben's Bedroom, and Told them not to come into the living room, I went back and watched This, another hour later Adam returned home, He told me that his boss had given him and the rest of the workers the day off, He told me to tell the kids to pack their clothes up, and pack their favorite toys, books, games, handheld video games, plush animals, etc. etc. and go to the bomb shelter, while he goes to the store to get some food, in case something else happens, but thankfully nothing else happened.

Same, 3 days after my eleventh birthday I received a wake up call from the real world. We all did.

I was 11 too. I didnt even know what ‘terrorism’ meant when this happened. I actually thought this was the first time that kind of thing ever happened.

*Every* network did the first few days, mirroring one of the news or major broadcast channels' coverage. I think one of the kids channels came back quickly so kids had a safe channel to watch, and I think TWC came back quickly, as their weather programming was needed. It was so weird surfing 100 channels and nearly every. Last. One. Was death. In months to come, The Food Channel was the only network to never refer to 9/11 at all. I remember survivors saying it was the only thing they could watch.

I was in 7th grade and it was so incredibly life altering. We were sitting in class completely in shock, just watching tv's in every single classroom. Some kids crying, most of them not understanding how much this would affect our lives.

For those of us who remember that day clearly...we will NEVER forget that day. Ever. 😞🙏🙏

On purpose!

The government knew the towers were coming down that day. The people in the World Trade Center never should have went to work. Many of them never had a chance. Bush pretended nothing was wrong. Sad.

Bush had only come into power months before. It was Bill Clinton who was focused on sex in the Oval Office and not paying attention to the threats.

@@cindeed4422 You are relying on conspiracy theory. Not true!

@@Nancy-fm1ie and who at least tried on several occasions to get bin laden but unlike bush who btw had 9 months (which is plenty of time) to look into intelligence reports of a possible terrorist attack on u.s soil. But instead he too focused on playing golf and vacationing on his ranch.

They collapsed 33 years after building commenced.

You were a very smart three year old to even think it might’ve been an earthquake!

I am 52 now...and now we know who did it we want justice. Take their lives

bombs overseas same day as columbine too

Same, pretty much. I was in 6th. My friends' teachers had the TV on the whole time, but mine thought it was better to keep us in the dark and let the kids sort it out. Literally, there were kids trying to get other kids to stop crying because nobody knew what was happening while the teacher sat in stunned silence. For a while she left the room to go watch TV in the Teacher's break room with the other idiot teachers

Not literally in the dark* euphemism

​@@ProjectRedfootthey didn't even let us know what was going on until 3 PM that day. Over the intercom at that. Kinda wish we were told what was going on especially being that we weren't too far from the Pentagon. Wishing peace to every victim's family.

Or watching Snoop induct Tupac into the Rock n Roll Hall of fame.

My exact thoughts!! #PureEvilWithNoRemorse😒 #NoJustice🚫😔

Yes definitely

@@IIJOSEPHXII Ooooooooooh!

He was one of the biggest terrorist leaders of that time so he was inevitably gonna come up.

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Many lives lost of folks on the ground looking up at the buildings fall 😲

@@ElleBrOw 🥺😢

Such sacrifices! 😢

I was 21 I remember it very vividly

I was 6 and a half and remember the day quite well.

He was the worst person to have in that office at that time. We lost our Republic shortly after.

@@marbury2403 Our Republic seems to be doing fine. Not so sure about democracy.

Didn't fit the narrative

DITRH -- Forget building 7, Building 6 is the SMOKING GUN of 911: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zLj-9rPFAyo.html

@@TheLineofBestFlat you're about only the 2nd or 3rd person I've seen mention this.

Insurance

Ask lucky larry

And David Bloom (1963-2003) NBC colleague From a pulmonary embolism when he was reporting in Iraq

Never forget

I remember that.

@DeathAdder7 Nobody died in the collapse. It burned for eight hours. Please use what’s left of your brain and research how long it takes for a fire to burn down a single story home. You won’t because you don’t care about facts, so I’ll tell you. Five-ten minutes is all it takes, yet this building was burning for eight hours. Wake up.

@DeathAdder7 that and the missile strike on the Pentagon 49:30

​@DeathAdder7🙄

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Mannnnpeople dont overstandbthis shit smh 🤦🏿‍♂️

Because the reports were coming from people on the ground, eyewitnesses, and eyewitnesses are going to give erroneous reports

Same

Same here 😕

You’re turning 21 soon. Happy 21st!

Lol terrible

Looks like it was around 5:52pm EST.

Lies

It’s his recording, he can watermark it if he wants. Whether it’s public footage or not, it’s from his personal VHS tape. Why a little tiny logo bothers you really astounds me

The most brainwashed, in hindsight.

@@casebarreoltt5990 Right after the attacks people were awake.

@@rknine7998 Afraid

@@casebarreoltt5990 Most likely fear is what woke them up.

Thank you for that poignant contribution