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Sep 10, 2021 · Writer: Kyle Almond. Photo editors: Brett Roegiers, Sandra Stevenson and Bernadette Tuazon. We look back at some of the most unforgettable photos from the September 11 attacks — and tell...
Sep 11, 2021 · Nancy Siesel/The New York Times. In the weeks following Sept. 11, I was assigned to photograph the aftermath — a landscape in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn that was irrevocably altered....
Sep 8, 2021 · Even an astronaut on the International Space Station took some. Twenty years later, The Associated Press has curated 20 of its photographers’ frames from Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers used commercial planes as missiles and crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
Sep 11, 2023 · Defining images from the 9/11 attacks. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11,...
- Attacks on The World Trade Center: Photos
- NYC First Responders on 9/11: Photos
- Attack on The Pentagon: Photos
- Flight 93: Photos
- The President and Vice President on 9/11: Photos
- 9/11 Lost and Found: The Items Left Behind
In all, 2,595 people inside and near the towers were killed, along with the 157 people who were aboard the flights.
The 9/11 attacks not only became the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history, they were also the deadliest incident ever for firefighters, as well as for law enforcement officers in the United States.
At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a jet engine roared low over traffic in Washington, D.C. The airplane, the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, sliced through three light poles in the Pentagon parking lot before slamming into the first floor of the building and exploding in a fireball, instantly killing 125 people inside the Pentagon plus all ...
United Airlines Flight 93, a regularly scheduled early-morning nonstop flight from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, departed at 8:42 a.m. on September 11, 2001, just minutes before the first hijacked plane struck the World Trade Center. Unlike the hijackers on the other three planes, the four hijackers on Flight 93 did not attempt ...
On 9/11, millions of Americans became glued to their televisions, watching in horror as hijacked planes attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But there was one critical group of people who, for a time, received only snippets of information—and misinformation—as the day unfolded. They were the passengers of Air Force One—including the pr...
A few years after the 9/11 attacks, work began at New York City's Ground Zero to build what would become the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. In May of 2014, the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened in New York by the World Trade Center site. The museum honors the many victims of the attacks and all those who ...
Sep 8, 2021 · Three firefighters—George Johnson, Dan McWilliams and Bill Eisengrein—raising the American flag on September 11, 2001. This last of the series remains the most striking, yet least-known...
Aug 23, 2021 · Photos of 9/11 and its aftermath to mark the 20-year anniversary. By Leslie Gornstein. August 23, 2021 / 12:18 PM EDT / CBS News. Suzanne Plunkett / AP. On September 11, 2001, members of...
