What follows are the accounts of ordinary people who chose to pick up video cameras-people didn’t have smartphones in 2001-and record the shocking events that unfolded in Lower Manhattan. Nearly 3,000 people died in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, where heroic passengers overpowered their hijackers. Then the first tower fell, and with it any hope that this was some kind of terrible accident. News footage showed the badly damaged towers billowing black smoke into the sky as reporters scrambled to make sense of what was happening. One commercial airplane, then two, had crashed into the World Trade Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world awoke to the unthinkable.
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