What We Saw; The Events of September 11, 2001, in Words, Pictures, and Video

by CBS News; Dan Rather

• ISBN13: 9780743241908
• ISBN10: 0743241908
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-20
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

September 11, 2001, will be eternally frozen in our memories. Where we were; what we thought; what we felt; what we heard; and especially what we saw will stay with us forever. It was a day -- defined for each of us in an instant -- that we will share with our children and our grandchildren in the years to come. In words and images -- and on a full-length DVD -- What We Saw captures those moments. Dan Rather's Introduction sets the stage for an introspective look at the catastrophic events of September 11. What We Saw follows a day that started out like any other but ended in silence and sorrow -- from the first interviews by phone with eyewitnesses to a plane crashing into Tower 1 of the World Trade Center to the Towers of Light tribute, six months later. As the world came to a halt that September morning, Dan Rather and his colleagues at CBS News worked tirelessly to provide detailed, accurate coverage of that day and the days that followed. Not only are the events that shook America's biggest city and its capital closely documented, but the tragedies that occurred elsewhere are also examined, from the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to the repercussions felt in a small New Jersey commuter town. Among the contributors are Jules Naudet, a French filmmaker who was working on a documentary about New York City firefighters when his subjects were called into service that September morning; Newsweek's Anna Quindlen, whose thoughts turn to a young family likely headed on vacation aboard United Airlines Flight 175, The New Republic's David Grann, who captures the feeling of hopelessness felt by the families searching for missing loved ones; and CBS's Ed Bradley, who describes the volunteers who flocked to Manhattan with an overwhelming desire to help. Each moment of September 11 and its aftermath is portrayed with candor and honesty by the CBS News correspondents, photographers, camera operators, and journalists who were there. What We Saw is an invaluable documentary of a day that changed our world forever.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction -- Dan Rather, CBS News

Chronology of Events

Transcript of Bryant Gumbel, CBS News

THE NUMBERS by Bryan Charles

Jules Naudet, documentary filmmaker

Transcript Dan Rather, CBS News

Transcript of Jim Stewart, CBS News

Transcript of Peter Maer, CBS Radio News

Harold Dow, CBS News

DEATH TAKES HOLD AMONG THE LIVING by Pete Hamill

Steve Hartman, CBS News

Transcript of Cynthia Bowers, CBS News

FLYING BLIND: ON THAT FATEFUL DAY, TWO AIRLINES FACED THEIR DARKEST SCENARIO by Scott McCartney and Susan Carey

Transcript of Carol Marin, CBS News

A WIDOW'S WALK by Marian Fontana

EYE OF THE STORM: ONE JOURNEY THROUGH DESPERATION AND CHAOS by John Bussey

Transcript of Pamela McCall, CBS Radio News

THE WAY DOWN by Michael Wright with Carl Fussman

A DAY OF TERROR: A CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; LIVE IMAGES MAKE VIEWERS WITNESSES TO HORROR by Caryn James

AMERICANS TUNE IN AND STRESS OUT by Howard Kurtz

Byron Pitts, CBS News

THE INNER STRENGTHS OF A VULNERABLE CITY by Kurt Anderson

SMOKE AND STENCH CANNOT MASK THE STRENGTH TO REBUILD by Pete Hamill

IN CHARGE by Elizabeth Kolbert

LIBERTIES: A GRAVE SILENCE by Maureen Dowd

Scott Pelley, CBS News

NEW YORK DISPATCH: FAMILY ROOM by David Grann

IMAGINING THE HANSON FAMILY by Anna Quindlen

CITY OF GHOSTS by Tom Robbins and Jennifer Gonnerman

Ed Bradley, CBS News

NOT JUST ANOTHER SEPTEMBER SATURDAY by Manny Fernandez, Darragh Johnson, and Neely Tucker

Steve Kroft, CBS News

David Letterman interviewing Dan Rather, CBS News

Portraits of Grief, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Bill Geist, CBS News