September 11 Digital Archive

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  • Collection: The Sonic Memorial Project

Katherine Mueller tells about her daughter Katelyn, who watched from her school window while the towers fell. Katelyn later wrote a song called Tuesday about her experience.

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Katherine Johnson saved the message she received on 9/11 from her father in Wisconsin. He was crying--something she had never heard before--and checking maps to see how far away she was from the WTC.

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Former WTC building stewardess Kathleen Quinn describes her relationship with Guy Tozzoli and her training.

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Former WTC building stewardess Kathleen Quinn describes her early days on the job.

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Kathleen Schroeder recalls listening to the radio on 9/11. She hopes it will be possible for the Sonic Memorial to include the communications of ordinary citizens as they tried to contact loved ones that day.

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Kathy Naughton, who lives in Seattle, attended the annual midwives convention at the WTC and loved it. She particularly remembers a jazz piano player she heard at Windows on the World.

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Filmmaker Katie McBride describes her plans to make a documentary about the residents of Battery Park City who were relocated after 9/11.

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In October 2001 filmmaker Kelli Feigley recorded a two-minute video poem on the Brooklyn Bridge called My Brother the City.

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This is Ken Van Auken's phone message from the WTC to his wife on 9/11. He did not survive. Ken and I went to junior high school on Staten Island together and I never saw him after that. I was stopped cold when I heard this broadcast on the radio.

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In an interview with Ben Shapiro on December 11, 2001, Kenneth Jackson of the New-York Historical Society talks about September 11. Part 1: The role a cultural institution should play post-9/11.

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In an interview with Ben Shapiro on December 11, 2001, Kenneth Jackson of the New-York Historical Society talks about September 11. Part 2: What gives 9/11 particular horror.

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In an interview with Ben Shapiro on December 11, 2001, Kenneth Jackson of the New-York Historical Society talks about September 11. Part 3: Why we miss the towers, and why they were problematic.

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In an interview with Ben Shapiro on December 11, 2001, Kenneth Jackson of the New-York Historical Society talks about September 11. Part 4: What the WTC represented, and what sort of memorial is appropriate.

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In an interview with Ben Shapiro on December 11, 2001, Kenneth Jackson of the New-York Historical Society talks about September 11. Part 5: Why historical perspective is important.

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Kermit Simon describes his visits to the WTC over the last two decades. He would like to submit tapes of recordings he has been making of each visit he has made to Ground Zero since 9/11.

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In 1982, radio producer Lou Giansante recorded a number of interviews with people at the World Trade Center, as well as some of the sounds of the buildings. In this recording, made from the observation deck, he recorded a man pointing out his car to…

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Brooklynite Kristen Worrall taped the towers falling from across the water and got people's reactions. The next day, she went to a Manhattan hospital to document the aftermath of the tragedy.

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Kristin Shout remembers how she was impacted by the events of 9/11. She talks about a song she wrote three weeks after called "What the Demons Did".

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Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Kyle Beauvais describes his tactics for dealing with the danger of walking high beams.

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Florida resident Larry Clement worked in theater in the mid-1980s. He remembers the WTC fondly, especially the Theatre Development Fund's TKTS booth at 2 WTC. It was always empty--his particular secret.
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