Highlights From the Archives |
A selection of key articles and multimedia from the day of the attacks through the present.
Angel Franco/The New York Times
U.S. ATTACKED; President Vows to Exact Punishment for 'Evil'
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Hijackers rammed jetliners into each of New York's World Trade Center towers yesterday, toppling both in a hellish storm of ash, glass, smoke and leaping victims, while a third jetliner crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia.
A Creeping Horror
By N. R. KLEINFIELD
It kept getting worse. The horror arrived in episodic bursts of chilling disbelief, signified first by trembling floors, sharp eruptions, cracked windows. There was the actual unfathomable realization of a gaping, flaming hole in first one of the tall towers, and then the same thing all over again in its twin.
102 Minutes: Fighting to Live as the Towers Died
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
They began as calls for help, information, guidance. They quickly turned into soundings of desperation, and anger, and love. Now they are the remembered voices of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers.
The New York Times Magazine, September 9, 2002
Edward Keating/The New York Times
The Height of Ambition
By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON
Every morning more than 40,000 men and women went to work in the trade center, but only one of them -- Guy Tozzoli -- could say that he had created it.
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How the Towers Stood and Fell
At Morgue, Ceaselessly Sifting 9/11 Traces
By Dan Barry
Outside the chalk-white tent, the whistle of traffic along the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive signals the forward movement of a city. But inside, 16 refrigerated trailers hum in a ceaseless chorus, giving voice to the dead whose remains are contained in their hold.
Vincent Laforet for The New York Times
The Hole in the City’s Heart
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Where some saw lucrative real estate, others saw a graveyard. Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, ground zero remained a sinkhole of good intentions, where conflicting visions repeatedly stalled efforts to rebuild a site of horrific tragedy.
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Ground Zero, Five Years Later
Ground Zero: Before the Fall
By ERIC LIPTON
The stories of a patch of Lower Manhattan land from the late 1630s to Sept. 11, 2001, the stories of the men and women who occupied that land and of the way it has been worked and reworked again and again, are in many ways as big as New York itself.
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Ground Zero Now
Portraits of Grief
Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, reporters at The New York Times, armed with stacks of homemade missing-persons fliers, began interviewing friends and relatives of the missing and writing brief portraits of their lives to create “Portraits of Grief.” Not meant to be obituaries in any traditional sense, they were informal and impressionistic, often centered on a single story or idiosyncratic detail.
The First 10 Days
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Sept. 12, 2001 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20
NYTIMES.COM FRONT PAGES:
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A Decade at War
- September 13, 2001
- After the Attacks, the Investigation: Bin Laden Tie Cited September 21, 2001
- Bush Pledges Attack on Afghanistan Unless it Surrenders Bin Laden October 8, 2001
- U.S. And Britain Strike Afghanistan, Aiming at Bases and Terrorist Camps February 24, 2002
- New Clues Suggest Bin Laden Alive on Afghan Border March 20, 2003
- Bush Orders Start of War on Iraq September 9, 2004
- For 1,000 Troops, There Is No Going Home September 11, 2005
- Taking Stock of the Forever War January 11, 2007
- Bush Adds Troops in Bid to Secure Iraq March 15, 2007
- Suspected Leader of 9/11 Attacks Is Said to Confess December 1, 2009
- Obama Adds Troops, but Maps Exit Plan August 31, 2010
- Obama Declares an End to Combat Mission in Iraq May 1, 2011
- Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says
The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air
A selection of audio recordings from the morning of September 11, 2001.
