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The chilling bit as always was the poor souls near the top, waving to catch attention out of smashed windows (and escape the smoke).
Seconds before their tower collapsed.
Seconds before their tower collapsed.
Yes - I was amazed by the calibre of contributors they secured. Normally it is marginal players looking for a pay day but with limited knowledge of events. The fact they managed to get detailed interviews with the former President plus heads of his security detail and CIA folk and the White House ops team etc is huge kudos and gave a fascinating perspective on events and our modern history.
The one the day before where there were individual testaments of survivors and that was a very hard watch!
There was a shot of the fire people standing around watching a body falling out the sky and the sound of it hitting the ground was truly sickening. And the poor woman whose husband, also a emergency services worker, was killed when he was hit by a falling body and she explained just what happened to him.
I watched Surviving 9/11 on iPlayer. Like you say it was a hard watch. It was interesting that some of the interviewees were quite critical of various aspects of 9/11. Like the woman whose husband was one of the pilots on the United Airlines flight which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers stormed the cockpit. They showed a clip of Bush praising Todd Beamer for his courage in storming the cockpit, but she said it was almost as if the flight crew and other passengers had been airbrushed out of history. Also there was a woman in the USAF who said those passengers would never have been put in that position if the intelligence services had been doing their job.
I watched Surviving 9/11 on iPlayer. Like you say it was a hard watch. It was interesting that some of the interviewees were quite critical of various aspects of 9/11. Like the woman whose husband was one of the pilots on the United Airlines flight which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers stormed the cockpit. They showed a clip of Bush praising Todd Beamer for his courage in storming the cockpit, but she said it was almost as if the flight crew and other passengers had been airbrushed out of history. Also there was a woman in the USAF who said those passengers would never have been put in that position if the intelligence services had been doing their job.
I'm currently watching it and wondering who took all the intimate/reaction pictures from the plane and the bunker, is there a rule/law that states a photographer must be in the room for history purposes?
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[emoji106]The WH has always had in-house photographers, capturing moments in history.
[According to wiki, JFK started this, in 1961. Before that, random photos were taken by military photographers].