Libraries Remember
The First Four Hours
Words Matter
The First Four Hours
Words Matter
Many of us remember precisely where we were and what we were doing
when we first heard the news of what was happening in New York on the
morning of September 11, 2001. Many of us were going about our regular
weekday routine... getting dressed and ready to leave for work, helping our
kids get ready for school, making our morning commute. Perhaps you first
heard the news on the radio and only later were able to begin watching the
pictures as they were broadcast from New York.
Beginning at 8:00 a.m. this morning, the library will re-broadcast the CBS
Morning News from the morning of September 11, 2001. We will pick up the
broadcast as it was in progress at 8:31 a.m., Eastern Time, and you will see
the program from that point on in its entirety, including commercial breaks.
Twenty minutes into the program, regularly scheduled features were
interrupted to bring a breaking news story - that an airplane had apparently
crashed into the World Trade Center.
In 2001, we were mesmerized and horrified as we watched the news
reporters struggling to understand and report what was happening. As we
watch now, from a distance of nine years, our minds are better able to
comprehend the images and understand the extraordinary work being done
by reporters on live television that morning.
This will be an opportunity not only for all of us who remember the day to
watch events unfold again, but also for those who were too young to
comprehend what was happening to see this cataclysmic historical event
exactly as it happened nine years ago today.
Although we will show the first four hours that were broadcast from CBS
Television that morning, you should feel free to stay only for as long as you
care to.
when we first heard the news of what was happening in New York on the
morning of September 11, 2001. Many of us were going about our regular
weekday routine... getting dressed and ready to leave for work, helping our
kids get ready for school, making our morning commute. Perhaps you first
heard the news on the radio and only later were able to begin watching the
pictures as they were broadcast from New York.
Beginning at 8:00 a.m. this morning, the library will re-broadcast the CBS
Morning News from the morning of September 11, 2001. We will pick up the
broadcast as it was in progress at 8:31 a.m., Eastern Time, and you will see
the program from that point on in its entirety, including commercial breaks.
Twenty minutes into the program, regularly scheduled features were
interrupted to bring a breaking news story - that an airplane had apparently
crashed into the World Trade Center.
In 2001, we were mesmerized and horrified as we watched the news
reporters struggling to understand and report what was happening. As we
watch now, from a distance of nine years, our minds are better able to
comprehend the images and understand the extraordinary work being done
by reporters on live television that morning.
This will be an opportunity not only for all of us who remember the day to
watch events unfold again, but also for those who were too young to
comprehend what was happening to see this cataclysmic historical event
exactly as it happened nine years ago today.
Although we will show the first four hours that were broadcast from CBS
Television that morning, you should feel free to stay only for as long as you
care to.