It was nine years ago, yet it feels like only yesterday. We suffered the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history when twin jet airliners took down the World Trade Center, a jet plane crashed at the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt kept it from hitting its target.
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The following video is one of the most thorough summaries of those infamous events that we have ever seen, as they unfolded on live television.
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It is ordered by time and you can view a timetable of the clips below the video. At the 19:30 mark, you can literally hear the heart of a nation break.
Let us never forget.
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NBC (USA) – 0:00:00-0:02:48
The Today Show pre-events
CBS (USA) – 0:02:49-0:04:24
As they break into news of the impact into the North Tower
CNN (USA) – 0:04:25-0:06:24
As they cut into a commercial to go live from NYC to cover the North Tower
TV Azteca (Mexico) – 0:06:25-0:07:44
Coverage of the North Tower on the morning show “Hechos”
ABC (USA) – 0:07:45-0:09:14
The impact into the South Tower live
ABC (USA) – 0:09:15-0:10:31
Presidential statement from Florida
WUSA (CBS affiliate in Washington DC) – 0:10:32-0:12:37
Breaks into CBS network coverage to report on the Pentagon impact
WTTG (Fox affiliate in Washington DC) – 0:13:38-0:14:33
Coverage of the collapse of the South Tower
NBC (USA) – 0:14:34-0:15:31
Live coverage of the South Tower collapse
NTVi (Russia) – 0:15:32-0:17:14
A news bulletin relating to the collapse of the South Tower
CCTV4 (China) – 0:17:15-0:18:18
A news bulletin with both Tower collapses. Video is from CNN
CBC Newsworld (Canada) – 0:18:18-0:20:16
Live coverage of the collapse of the North Tower
CNN (USA) – 0:20:17-0:21:42
First video from the Pennsylvania crash
Iraqi Satellite Channel (Iraq) – 0:21:43-0:23:12
New program with information about the attacks in America. This was the second news item in their program – the first was news of an Iraqi shoot-down of an unmanned US aircraft.
BBC World (UK) – 0:23:13-0:25:23
Summary of the day’s events
NHK World (Japan) – 0:25:24-0:26:08
NYC coverage with very close South Tower shots
VOA Worldnet (USA) – 0:26:09-0:27:04
Summary of the day’s events
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