[TV] 9/11 - BBC1 doc just started

[DFL JCL]

Just finished the Netflix 9/11 documentary. It brings it home when they showed Robert Eaton's name on the memorial in the final episode.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I stumbled across a documentary last night that was all about the people that jumped, a photographer was taking photos as they fell and then sort of made a photo album of them, they even zoomed in as close as they could get before it became too fuzzy but you could almost see the persons face, I am sure a relative or friend could probably identify who it was.
I had to turn over after 5 minutes, it was probably one of the sickest things I have seen on TV for some time, especially as they interviewed some of the relatives of those that died and they were clearly after 20 years still in a terrible mental state.
In my opinion that should never have been aired on TV.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I stumbled across a documentary last night that was all about the people that jumped, a photographer was taking photos as they fell and then sort of made a photo album of them, they even zoomed in as close as they could get before it became too fuzzy but you could almost see the persons face, I am sure a relative or friend could probably identify who it was.
I had to turn over after 5 minutes, it was probably one of the sickest things I have seen on TV for some time, especially as they interviewed some of the relatives of those that died and they were clearly after 20 years still in a terrible mental state.
In my opinion that should never have been aired on TV.

'The Falling Man'

 

[Brightonfan1983]

An interesting read that refuted the various theories, I feel though the phrases of “crackpots and crackheads” at the end, was out of pure frustration on the authors part!

Quite a restrained turn of phrase I reckon!

 

[Wozza]

The real heroes are dead.

This New Yorker article is just beautiful.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

 

[HHGull]

The real heroes are dead.

This New Yorker article is just beautiful.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

Thanks for that. The subject, Rick Rescorla, is also mentioned and discussed in the NatGeo documentary.

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

During the week that is in it - it is important to remember the OTHER 9/11

On 11 September 1973 the US administration in the guise of Nixon and Kissinger, orchestrated a military coup led by a fascist general, Augusto Pinochet, to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Within days of the coup over 4,000 working class political activists had been murdered in the National Stadium and over the course of the dictatorship (armed to the teeth by the USA and Britain) more than 40,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were imprisoned and tortured.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Got sent this by a friend who kept the original copy of the New York Times which was published on the 12th

 

[Weststander]

'The Falling Man'

Documentary about Zaha?

 

[Bakero]

The real heroes are dead.

This New Yorker article is just beautiful.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Wozza]

Also recommend this thread: https://twitter.com/reach4acopsgun/status/1436895137255231489?s=21

 

[Poojah]

Also recommend this thread: https://twitter.com/reach4acopsgun/status/1436895137255231489?s=21

Thanks for that, that was fascinating (and tragic in an unexpected way).

 

[Stat Brother]

For those who write, want to write, enjoy good writing, I strongly recommend Sally Jenkins first piece on 9/11.
20 years in the making as she finally got past the opening couple of paragraphs:-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/11/sally-jenkins-9-11-anniversary-perspective/

 

[A1X]

Finally caught up with this documentary over the weekend, absolutely thoroughly recommend it if you haven't watched it and are in any way interested in how events unfold among those in power