September 11, 2001, was a Tuesday – production day at the rural weekly I edited at the time. I had been in the office until around 2 a.m. the night before laying out inside pages, so I didn’t arrive at… Read More ›
Covering 9/11
Deborah Howlett
I was working for USA Today in Chicago and that morning, as it happened, I was at an appointment with an obstetrician with my wife, Cindy, who was three months pregnant with our first child. I got a call from my… Read More ›
Jim Hooker
As a reporter for New Jersey Network News on the state’s public television network, the 21st century’s version of the Day of Infamy began like any other routine Tuesday in September: a half dozen or so reporters and assignment staff… Read More ›
Herb Jackson
I was Statehouse bureau chief for The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and remember driving down Route 1 to my office in Trenton listening to CBS Radio reporting that the first plane, and then the second one, had hit the towers. I had… Read More ›
