Associated Press Journalists Who Witnessed Sept. 11 Remember What They Saw, 25 Years Later
AP reporters and photographers described smoke, collapse and rescue scenes as they covered the attacks and later reflected on the images they captured.
- Twenty-Five years after the Sept 11th attacks killed Nearly 3,000 people, Associated Press journalists are reflecting on the day they documented the tragedy while living through it.
- Associated Press reporter Karen Matthews was in her Manhattan apartment with her 3-year daughter when she heard a loud boom, initially assuming a small plane had struck the World Trade Center before seeing a "big fireball" erupt.
- Originally assigned to cover Fashion Week, Richard Drew captured iconic images including "The Falling Man," which he still thinks about weekly, noting his camera acts as a "wall" between him and reality.
- Sancetta photographed the south tower's collapse from a block away before fleeing, while Larry Neumeister reported dust fell "like a snowstorm" outside a hospital where staff prepared for potentially thousands of injured survivors.
- Reflecting on the event, Sancetta noted that while she was glad to be there as a journalist, she wished she had gone home on Monday, emphasizing the personal cost of witnessing the tragedy.
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Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they saw, 25 years later – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she heard a loud boom, unlike anything she’d ever heard before. Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World...
Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they
NEW YORK (AP) — Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she heard a loud boom, unlike anything she’d ever heard before. Holding her child,
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Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they saw, 25 years later
NEW YORK (AP) — Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she heard a loud boom, unlike anything she’d ever heard before.
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