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Smoke rising in sunlight (Joel Meyerowitz/Aftermath)
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Before and After 9/11

Monday, September 11, 2006

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.

Available for purchase at amazon.com


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 of a commemoration of 9/11
Monday, September 11 at 7 pm
The New York Public Library
The Rose Main Reading Room
For tickets, visit The New York Public Library website

Joel Meyerowitz will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, September 12 at 7 pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble


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 the time, and is a senior there now. And Julia Delmedico was a first grader attending her second day at school at PS 234.


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 a post-9/11 world. They discuss how the collapse of the towers has influenced the way architects have thought about tall buildings ever since.



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