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How Skyscrapers Have Changed Since September 11th
When two planes crashed into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, architects knew skyscraper design would never be the same.One of those was Dan Kaplan, a senior partner at the firm FXFOWLE. He watched...
View ArticleWatch live: Family, friends and survivors commemorate 9/11
Watch and listen as friends, family and survivors gather to read the names of those killed at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001. The remembrance begins at 8:41 a.m. ET and will include...
View ArticleRep. Nadler's 9/11 Anniversary Reflections; Irma Response; Primary...
Coming up on today's show: Rep. Jerrold Nadler reflects on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and talks about his work in Washington pass the DREAM Act, and provides disaster relief to hurricane...
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Ground Zero Artifacts Give Towns Across the U.S. a Piece of 9/11 to Memorialize
Twisted metal I-beams. A fully-intact train car. A metal spire from the North Tower.These artifacts, pulled from the wreckage after the September 11th attacks in New York City, were among hundreds that...
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Trump and first lady commemorate Sept. 11 anniversary
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump observe a moment of silence at the White House on Sept. 11 in remembrance of lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Photo by Kevin...
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Column: Why educators still need to talk about 9/11 — and Islamophobia
Photo by Alan Levine/FlickrI was in 10th grade living in Toronto when 9/11 happened. We were in art class and an office announcement came on that the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane....
View ArticleRep. Nadler on the 16th Anniversary of September 11
Rep. Jerrold Nadler reflects on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and talks about his work in Washington pass the DREAM Act and providing disaster relief to hurricane victims. "Even if u think we...
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News Wrap: 2.5 million need aid after powerful Mexico earthquake
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: The death toll from last week’s powerful earthquake in Mexico has risen to at least 96. Authorities also say 2.5 million people...
View ArticleAs Hurricane Florence Approaches, What About the People Forced to Stay?
As Hurricane Florence Approaches, What About the People Forced to Stay?As millions leave their homes to avoid Hurricane Florence, many more will be forced to shelter in place, whether because of...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, After 17 Years of War, Violence is an Everyday Threat
Shortly after the September 11th attacks, the United States responded with Operation Enduring Freedom, the military effort to remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan.Seventeen years later,...
View ArticleWhy Many Afghans Don't Understand 9/11
This weekend in a series of tweets, President Trump both disclosed and scrapped secret talks with the Taliban in Camp David. Of course, the Taliban did not perpetrate 9/11. But they did offer safe...
View ArticleRemembering St. Vincent's, Celebrating Windows on the World, A 'Come From...
Actor Kathleen Chalfant, director Daniella Topol, and playwright Cusi Cram join us to discuss the world premiere of “Novenas for a Lost Hospital,” a new play that celebrates the life and legacy of the...
View ArticleFormer Stuyvesant High School Students Recall Their Experiences During 9/11
During the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, New Yorkers fled Manhattan's Financial District by running north along the West Side Highway. Among those crowds were thousands of students from...
View ArticleRemembering Windows on the World
Tom Roston joins us to talk about his book, The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York. Event:Tom Roston will be in conversation...
View ArticleSee For Yourself
After the opening of the September 11th Memorial and Museum, record-breaking crowds traveled to Ground Zero, to the exact spot where the tragedy happened. In this archival edition of Fishko Files,...
View ArticleIntroducing Blindspot: The Road to 9/11
Time has flattened our understanding of the 9/11 terror attacks. There’s a sense that they came out of the clear blue sky of the day itself. They didn’t. We'll revisit the evidence and question the...
View ArticleEpisode 1: The Bullet
The 9/11 attacks were so much more than a bolt from the blue on a crisp September morning. They were more than a decade in the making. Our story starts in a Midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1990....
View ArticleEpisode 2: The Mole
In 1981, the radical cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman -- known as The Blind Sheikh -- inspires the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat at a military ceremony. One of the soldiers present is Emad...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Concerns Split 9/11 Memorial Ceremony In Two
For almost 20 years, families have memorialized the victims of the 2001 and 1993 attacks on the World Trade Center by reading aloud the names of those killed.But this year, due to concerns about...
View ArticleEpisode 3: The Bomb
NYPD Detective Louis Napoli and FBI Special Agent John Anticev fear an attack is coming, but without their mole, Emad Salem, they’re blind to the machinations of the Brooklyn terror cell. Then on...
View ArticleEpisode 4: The Sheikh
FBI informant Emad Salem is close to not only the Blind Sheikh but his trusted lieutenant, an ambitious terrorist named Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali. Salem soon finds himself at the Statue of Liberty with...
View ArticleBonus Episode: The Double Life
Emad Salem has been called one of the most successful undercover agents in the history of the FBI. In a rare interview, Salem opens up about the personal price he paid for foiling the Landmarks Plot...
View ArticleEpisode 5: The Idea
The World Trade Center was built with soaring expectations. Completed in 1973, its architect, Minoru Yamasaki, hoped the towers would stand as “a representation of man’s belief in humanity” and “world...
View ArticleEpisode 6: The Choice
Osama bin Laden began his life as the son of a contractor made fabulously wealthy by the Saudi Arabian oil boom. From an early age, bin Laden shows himself to be different from his Western-leaning...
View ArticleEpisode 7: The Falcon Hunt
It’s the late 1990s and the question tying policy makers at the highest levels of the U.S. government into knots: How should we respond to a relatively scattered group that is pulling off bloody...
View ArticleEpisode 8: The Ghost
“The Ghost” is the nickname that Port Authority Detective Matthew Besheer and FBI Special Agent Frank Pellegrino give to the man they’ve been hunting for years but can’t quite catch: Khalid Sheikh...
View ArticleOTM presents - Blindspot Ep. 5: The Idea
For this week's podcast extra, we're once more highlighting the work of our colleague Jim O'Grady and his brilliant podcast "Blindspot: The Road to 9/11." This is episode 5: The Idea.The World Trade...
View ArticleRevisiting 9/11
Twenty years after the attacks that changed our world, we revisit the evidence and question the people at the center of the story.
View Article9/11 and the Rise the NYPD | PART THREE: The Surveillance
“It came to the point where I was literally being followed by two cops, and I told myself it was in my head,” Mohamed Bahe recalled. “But it was always the same cars, and every time I stopped, they...
View ArticleFull Bio: 'The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden'
Author and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen joins us to discuss his new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden, a biography of the man who helped orchestrate 9/11 and changed the course...
View ArticleRetired FDNY Captain-Turned Artist Captures One World Trade in Lithograph
Retired FDNY Captain Brenda Berkman not only paved the way for more female firefighters, but in recent years has used art to process the trauma of her time as a first responder, including a series of...
View ArticleHow 9/11 Altered NYPD Surveillance
September 11 marked a turning point for a set of rules restricting NYPD surveillance of political groups and ethic communities, which can be traced back to the Black Panther Party and extend to Black...
View ArticleFull Bio: Bin Laden's Rise in the 1990s
We air the next installment of "Full Bio" with author and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, who discusses his new book The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, a biography of the man who helped...
View ArticleBrenda Berkman's Post-9/11 Art, 'Blood Brothers,' NYPD Surveillance, the Rise...
Retired FDNY Captain Brenda Berkman not only paved the way for more female firefighters, but in recent years has used art to process the trauma of her time as a first responder, including a series of...
View Article'Poetry After 9/11'
In the wake of 9/11, Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians decided to form a publishing company. Soon after, they published Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets, a collection featuring...
View ArticleAnalyzing Media Portrayals of Muslims Post-9/11
As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we are taking stock of how that day changed the world forever. We'll speak to leading scholar Evelyn Alsultany, who is an expert of the representation of...
View ArticleMusic in the Wake of 9/11
As part of our week of coverage commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, WQXR chief content officer and senior vice president Ed Yim joins us to discuss the music that has become...
View ArticlePoetry Post-9/11, Media Portrayals of Muslims, Full Bio with Peter Bergen,...
In the wake of 9/11, Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians decided to form a publishing company. Soon after, they published Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets, a collection featuring...
View ArticleWhat 9/11 Did to One Family
On September 11, 2001, Bobby McIlvaine was killed, along with nearly 3,000 other Americans. In the 20 years since, his parents and brother have searched for ways to live through, and with, their...
View Article9/11 and the Rise of the NYPD | PART SIX: The Sacrifice
Ivonne Sanchez was responding to an emergency in the Bronx when the first plane flew into the World Trade Center on 9/11. By the time the NYFD EMT was able to make it downtown, the towers had...
View Article9/11 and the Rise of the NYPD | PART SEVEN: Unity
The days after September 11th are mostly remembered as a time when the country came together, where our grief turned to unity around a common cause. Parts of these memories are tainted by the rosiness...
View ArticleRebuilding the World Trade Center
A new book chronicles the long process of rebuilding the World Trade Center from the rubble of 9/11. Journalist Scott Raab, who followed the story for Esquire, and the official World Trade Center...
View ArticleBuilding One World Trade, Paula Cole, Finding bin Laden, Connie Smith
A new book chronicles the long process of rebuilding the World Trade Center from the rubble of 9/11. Journalist Scott Raab, who followed the story for Esquire, and the official World Trade Center...
View ArticleThe 9/11 Lens
In the 20 years since 9/11, we have regularly looked back to try to understand what happened. And every anniversary, the media repackages what we know: as articles, television specials, and...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Senator Jessica Ramos; How 9/11 Changed Childhood; The...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.NY State Senator Jessica Ramos on the recovery from Hurricane Ida in Queens (First) | 20 Years Later: How 9/11 Changed Childhood...
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Muslim Women reflect on 9/11 20 Years Later
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder of MuslimGirl.com and Mona Eltahawy, journalist and author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls join us to discuss the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and what it’s...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Cover Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay is a tricky place for a reporter. It's a high-stakes beat that touches on thorny legal and political issues, as well as fundamental questions about human rights. But the day-to-day...
View ArticleThe Art of Remembrance
The story of one local NYC artist who uses digital technology to honor our city’s past.Meet Vladimir Nazarov, a visual artist living in New York City, who combined his love for the city and his love of...
View Article9/11's 'Long Tail' of Health Effects
Michael Crane, MD, MPH, medical director of the WTC Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai and of the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health, talks about the expanding list of...
View ArticleGuantánamo Bay in 2023
Carol Rosenberg, New York Times reporter discusses the politics and humanitarian conditions at play at the Guantánamo Bay detention complex, including the news that President Biden rejected a proposed...
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