Sep 11 9/11 Ceremonies, Speeches Mark a Decade Since Attacks EmbedVideo(1486, 482, 304); Updated 8:20 p.m. ET | President Obama said at the conclusion of a day of events and memorial visits commemorating the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, that the past 10 years since the terrorist… Continue reading
Sep 11 Legacy Letters: ‘Choose Happy’ and Other Sentiments of Those Who Lost If the people who lost family members on 9/11 wrote letters to their deceased loved ones about their lives today, their sorrow and their hopes, what would they say? A new collection titled "The Legacy Letters" contains 100 such… Continue reading
Sep 11 The Complexity of 2,982 Names on the September 11 Memorial EmbedVideo(1467, 482, 304); Hari Sreenivasan talked with Jer Thorp and Jake Barton about the data and design involved in arranging the 2,982 victims names on the Sept. 11 memorial at Ground Zero. John Katsimatides, a 31-year-old corporate bonds… Continue reading
Sep 11 9/11 in Art: Photographer Captures Tributes in Murals, Tattoos, Graffiti EmbedVideo(1469, 482, 304); On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, Jonathan Hyman was driving home from dropping his daughter off at school when he heard the news. The Bethel, N.Y.-based documentary photographer knew that the attacks… Continue reading
Sep 11 NewsHour Report From Sept. 11, 2001 The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer offered extensive coverage on the day of Sept. 11, 2001 and the days after as details of the attacks unfolded. Watch part of that broadcast on Sept. 11, 2001, here: EmbedVideo(1473, 482, 304);… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch New Yorker, Poet Nancy Mercado Reads ‘Going to Work’ After the attacks of September 11th, New Yorker and poet, Nany Mercado, felt compelled to write about what she lost when the World Trade Center Towers came down. Mercado reads her poem, "Going to Work." It was included in "Poetry… Continue watching
Sep 10 After a Day of Horror at the Pentagon, a Determined Effort to Rebuild In the days and months after the 9/11 attack, senior correspondent Ray Suarez reported from his hometown of New York and the ravaged Pentagon just a few miles from the NewsHour's studio. Suarez recalls his vivid memories of seeing… Continue reading
Sep 10 Then and Now: Children Draw to Cope with 9/11 Photo by Julian Cortez and Paul Keim, courtesy of the NYU Child Study Center September 11 didn't make sense to 7-year-old Julian Cortez and 8-year-old Paul Keim, so they drew a scene that gave them comfort in the… Continue reading
Sep 09 Growing Up in a 9/11 World For young people who have grown up in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and an economic crisis, there's no shortage of questions about the future. Continue reading
Sep 09 Ray Suarez: The Presence of Absence After 9/11 I am a New Yorker. I knew the Twin Towers well. In the tough economic times of the late '70s, I strolled the food court and the shopping areas on my way to sign for an unemployment check. As a… Continue reading