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Smoke rising in sunlight (© Joel Meyerowitz/Aftermath)
We devote our full show today to remembering the 9/11 attacks, and exploring their continuing impact. First, Lawrence Wright's groundbreaking account of the events leading up to the attacks. Then, Joel Meyerowitz shares his Ground Zero photos. And we hear the firsthand accounts of students who were in school in lower Manhattan on 9/11. Plus, we ask how architects have responded in the wake of the attacks.
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright examines the terrorist plans and intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on 9/11 in The Looming Tower.
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Photos from Ground Zero
Joel Meyerowitz tells us what he saw during the nine months he spent photographing Ground Zero. His new collection of photos is Aftermath.
Slideshow: Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
Events: Joel Meyerowitz will be speaking and presenting a slideshow as part ...
Slideshow: Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
Events: Joel Meyerowitz will be speaking and presenting a slideshow as part ...
Growing Up with 9/11
Three students who were in school in lower Manhattan tell us what they remember about the 9/11 attacks, and talk about their impact on their lives. Dakota Straub is a freshman at Barnard, who was attending Stuyvesant High School five years ago. Sam Hausner-Levine, was going to St. Ann's at ...
Architecture Post 9/11
Eugene Kohn, the chairman of the NYC-based architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, structural engineer Leslie Robertson, who has been responsible for hundreds of buildings around the world including the World Trade Center, and Carol Willis, the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum, talk about architecture in ...
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