September 11 Digital Archive / "Satan in the Smoke" Emails

"Satan in the Smoke" Emails

On the morning of September 11, immediately after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, photojournalist Mark D. Phillips took a picture that would prove to be one of the most evocative and disputed images of that tragic day. Many peple later construed the image of the smoke in his photo of the burning buildings to compose the face of Satan. These e-mails related to this picture provide a revealing portal into Americans' responses to the attacks in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Let me start by saying you have to be one of the most ignarant people is this industry. You knowing that when you preach you get worshipers (ESPECIALLY ON THE INTERNET), In the sense that when you pu...

Thank you for the photo. If there is any fear on my part, if comes from the affirmation that there truly is a satanic force. I've seen faces of angels in the clouds, but never those of demons. I'v...

There is another view, taken from the right of the image, available on the Washington Post's web site. It is found under Camera Works/US Under Attack/enter the gallery/scroll to image #9. It is differ...

What about the first image that came out in color. Was it a doctored image. I noticed it is no longer coming up. BR\nSun, 23 Sep 2001 18:31:04 -0700\n\n"Beverly Ross" \n\nimage\n...

Hello, I just wanted to take a moment to share with you what I saw the other day as they were showing the WTC smoldering. I was watching the coverage when I saw what appeared to be the face of the d...

Mark, I too saw a face, not the one you show. It was in smoke and I watched it as it rolled up out of sight. So shocked, I told my husband "look, there if a face" He too saw it. The face was pleasant....

The men who carried out this diaboloical act are evil and i do not doubt for one minute that there is an image in the smoke. Perhaps its a message to America that we need to pray for those families wh...

Call me a cynic, but I would like to know where I can see the image on video. Thanks!!\nMon, 24 Sep 2001 13:20:11 -0500\n\n"Jill Salisbury" \n\nImage in tower\n...

Just a note to let you know that during the initial video coverage of the WTC tragedy, I saw this very image. I could barely comprehend what I had seen, but I told my family about the face in the smo...