This weekend marks the 21st anniversary of September 11, 2001—a miserable day that forever changed America.
Today, as part of the worldwide 9/11 remembrance, 1010 WINS releases 24 hours of wall-to-wall coverage from their audio archive of the attacks on NYC and America.
With no extra commentary, it’s simply their coverage of events as they happened on that day. And more than two decades later, the broadcast still makes my heart race and takes my breath away.
Listen and remember how you first learned about the “towers collapsing in a storm of dust and fear.” Here is the first hour of 9/11 reporting from 1010 WINS and newsman Lee Harris:
The complete 24 hours of coverage is available from the 1010 Wins archive. A comprehensive timeline of the September 11 attacks is on Wikipedia.
To visualize the human toll of the attacks, visit my post,
Remembering the magnitude of our 9/11 loss. One location, one individual at a time.
