9/11. The World Trade Center Blogs: Index to Multimedia Series (updated)
This series has been updated several times. It was originally posted in 2008.
[9/13, 9/14, 9/15, 9/16* 9/18, 9/21, 9/22, 9/23]
The posts have audio and visual components.
They are best viewed on a large screen with audio on.
*📌Lead-in: From Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan/A visual essay and a prelude
- a visit to the area triggers memories
*📌Part 1: Windows on the World
- Video: Building the World Trade Center
- Introduction
- George Willig, the wire walker
- Memory: dining at Windows On The World
*📌Part 2: Audio Walking Tour: A thousand pictures from the sounds
(Narrated by Paul Auster)
“Featuring voice messages, interviews, eyewitness accounts, live music, audio artifacts–the elevators, revolving doors, the piano in Windows on the World…stories and sounds from the world Trade Center and it’s neighborhood.”
- Follow the map
- 102 facts
- My Premonition
- digital art/the missing woman in my picture
- poetry
📍The following video is of a highly sensitive nature. The story behind “The Falling Man.”
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📌Addendum: visit to the World Trade Center Site, July 11, 2012: Guide book and photos
*📌Part 5a: NYC Photo Journal: A visit to the WTC site: Guide
The experience of visiting the site: a copy of the visitor’s booklet
*📌Part 5b: NYC Photo Journal: Lower Manhattan WTC Part 2: Observations and Photographs
- A map and photographs of the area
📌The New World Trade Center: Time Magazine’s Incredible Interactive Panoramas
*📌Part 6: The New World Trade Center, Its Story And Incredible View
2021: The Wall Street Journal: You likely will need a subscription to read the article.
Article: SEPT. 11
On 9/11, Split-Second Decisions by Employees at ICAP Affected the Rest of Their Lives
2022
📌They lost loved ones in 9/11. We invited them to leave a voicemail in their memory
*📌 Part 7: NPR
📌He was the manager of Windows on the World
*📌Part 8: “I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE PEOPLE”
- The manager survived; 79 employees did not
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Original comments
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lauritasita wrote on Sep 11, ’08
An excellent recap, but very difficult to watch.
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brian51 wrote on Sep 11, ’08
As difficult as this was to watch, as much as it brought the feelings of that day back to the surface, thank you. I can’t imagine how it was for those living in NY. Like millions of others, time stood still as I saw it all unravel. I happened to be watching CNN that morning. At first, I hoped it was a small private plane that they were reporting about, until I saw the 2nd plane going in, then the collapses. I couldn’t get my mind around it, I was numb. It was surreal. It was so horrific.
I can remember every moment of that morning. Calling my sister-in-law, I knew my brother was flying into NY that week, he had several clients in the WTC. Your mind goes to the worst places then. With all the confusion, it took us 2 days to trace him down to Honduras, he had gone there first, at the last minute. I was on a trip back to Canada on a family matter. I remember the screams and shouting and crying at my wife’s workplace when I phoned her. The only thing close for me was when JFK was assassinated. I was a child, but I still remember all of that, when we were told at school. I will remember all of this, all my life. None of us should ever let it go, and none of us should ever forget or forgive the ones who did this. |
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sweetpotatoqueen wrote on Sep 11, ’08
In my heart,I know this falling man had great courage and although he died at the hands of terrorists,in the end he had some control of the end of his time on this earth. How awful the price of this event in our history & on the human spirit.Let us never forget the many heros of this day in history!
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philsgal7759 wrote on Sep 11, ’08
I recall this from last year and so decided not to watch this time The only thing more eerie was the piece done a year or son later where you could hear the thumps as people landed after jumping out of the towers
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starfishred wrote on Sep 11, ’08
DITTO LAURITA
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sanddunz wrote on Sep 13, ’08
I sat through this video with tears rolling down my face. I am glad you posted it, but I can’t say I have forgotten or forgiven, and with RH upon me, that isn’t good. Thank you for posting this. ((HUGS)) Shoshana
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caffeinatedjo wrote on Sep 8, ’09
Wow, I started crying and quit watching. how symbolic that “Falling Man” is…and how heroic. God bless him.
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sanssouciblogs wrote on Sep 9, ’09
Comments 2009 |
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sylvie1 wrote on Sep 9, ’09
horrendous and very hard to watch again … man’s inhumanity to man is almost more than I can stand. I can’t help but wonder what he was thinking as he was meeting his death. Whenever we wonder why we are still in the middle east hunting these animals, we only need to watch this atrocity. My tears were once again unleashed in a fury of sadness and anger and emotional pain.
The image of the falling man speaks to the desperation of all of the victims that died that day. |
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pestep55 wrote on Sep 10, ’09
Tomorrow is an annual date that will always bring memories and sadness when I think of that tragic day.
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lowflyingqueen wrote on Sep 11, ’09
You did a fantastic thing!
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lauritasita wrote on Sep 11, ’09
Thank you for this post.
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olbill wrote on Sep 11, ’09
thank you
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loveangel94 wrote on Sep 13, ’09
Wow what a tribute!
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forgetmenot525 wrote on Sep 13, ’09
this is a wonderful tribute but these images and the video are all so painful………….so vivid, what a truly awful awful day.
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sanssouciblogs wrote on Aug 25, ’10, edited on Sep 10, ’10
2010 comments |
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catfishred wrote on Sep 9, ’10
I don’t know about a grace and a stillness. Who knows really what was going on in that poor man’s mind? My God. It was all so horrific. I also don’t know why Americans haven’t been able to see this provocative film footage. Surely, you’re able to see it, Suz. It’s a wonderful memorial you’re doing here. XX
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skeezicks1957 wrote on Sep 10, ’10
I just watched The Falling Man video and it made the hair stand up on my arms. I will stop by through out the weekend and take time with the other items. But I can only absorb so much at a time. Excellent post Sans.
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sanssouciblogs wrote on Sep 10, ’10
It is an amazing video that I got through my friend Wren in Canada. It is beyond words.
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vghozlan wrote on Sep 11, ’10
I can’t watch it.
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sanssouciblogs wrote on Sep 11, ’10
Skip the video and go on to the pages, Vee.
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sanssouciblogs wrote on Sep 9, ’11
2011 comments: 10 year anniversary |
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lauritasita wrote on Sep 10, ’11
I think it was a good decision to publish that picture. It shows how desparate people were – either be burned alive or jump. Yes, the picture was hard to look at, but the photographer was just telling the story. That’s what photographers do.
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pestep55 wrote on Sep 11, ’11
Many memorials today, some coverage is here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/watch-the-september-11-memorial-ceremonies-live-20110911.html
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I still remember like it was yesterday