BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) 9/11 Gallery

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) 9/11 Gallery:

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Slide Show: Want to see the pictures as a slide show? [Slideshow]

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

Share: Facebook Twitter Digg
[1] NEW911_110908_002.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] NEW911_110908_005.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] NEW911_110908_013.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[4] NEW911_110908_025.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[5] NEW911_110908_032.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[6] NEW911_110908_037.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[7] NEW911_110908_041.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[8] NEW911_110908_043.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] NEW911_110908_052.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[10] NEW911_110908_060.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[11] NEW911_110908_065.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] NEW911_110908_069.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[13] NEW911_110908_072.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[14] NEW911_110908_077.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[15] NEW911_110908_082.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[16] NEW911_110908_086.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[17] NEW911_110908_087.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[18] NEW911_110908_093.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[19] NEW911_110908_095.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[20] NEW911_110908_099.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[21] NEW911_110908_103.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[22] NEW911_110908_108.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[23] NEW911_110908_114.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[24] NEW911_110908_127.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[25] NEW911_110910_03.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[26] NEW911_110910_12.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NEW911_110908_005.JPG: A Toppled Antenna Can't Stop the Flow of News: Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center destroyed the 360-foot antenna mast atop the North Tower, which served most of New York City's television stations and some radio stations. This upper section of the antenna mast, which toppled when the building collapsed at 10:28am, once soared about 1,700 feet above the ground, making it the highest point in New York City and the world's second-tallest antenna. Ten television stations lost their conventional transmission facilities when the mast was destroyed, but most New Yorkers were still able to receive news because stations continued to broadcast over cable lines or via satellite. Only WCBS-TV was able to continue broadcasting over the airwaves to the estimated 30 percent of New Yorkers lacking cable or satellite feeds, thanks to a backup antenna on the Empire State Building. Other stations eventually resumed broadcasting using temporary antenna systems and reduced power. Antenna Tops Tower: The 360-foot antenna mast atop the North Tower was constructed by RCA Corp. for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which built and owned the World Trade Center. Local broadcasters had moved their transmission facilities to the World Trade Center in the early 1980s because the height of the Twin Towers was interfering with signals from their antenna on the Empire State Building, which had previously been the highest point in Manhattan.
2. NEW911_110908_013.JPG: Found in Pennsylvania: Mute Testimony to Heroism: A fourth hijacked aircraft, the San Francisco-bound United Flight 93, had turned around and was headed in the direction of Washington DC, when it crashed into a field about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The flight, which took off that morning from Newark, NJ, carried 40 passengers and crew members. All perished in the crash, which occurred after several passengers rose up against the hijackers. This piece of fuselage was recovered from the field near Shanksville, PA, where United Flight 93 went down on Sept. 11.
3. NEW911_110908_025.JPG: A Passion for News Costs a Photographer His Life: On Sept 11, 2001, veteran freelance news photographer Bill Biggart was walking his dogs with his wife, Wendy Doremus, near their home in downtown Manhattan. A little after 8:45am, they noticed an unusual cloud in the clear blue sky. Someone on the street yelled that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Biggart ran home for his cameras. Doremus called Biggart on his cell phone after the first tower collapsed. He said, "I'm with the firemen and I'm safe and I'll meet you in 20 minutes." He never made that appointment. Four days later, Doremus learned that Biggart's body had been found in the rubble near the second collapsed tower. Biggart, 54, was the only working journalist killed covering the terrorist attack. Rescue workers recovered Biggart's three cameras, two camera bags, notes, press credentials, wedding ring and other personal effects. The cameras contained nearly 300 images he had shot that morning. Some of the recovered film was damaged, but digital images from his Canon D30 survived. Shown here are some of the images he took moments before he died.
4. NEW911_110908_043.JPG: Targeting the Pentagon: This original limestone cornice piece, dating to 1941-42, was removed from the section of the Pentagon damaged in the terrorist attack. Reconstruction of the area was completed within one year of the attack. Below, rescue workers look for survivors after the attack.
5. NEW911_110908_052.JPG: In Washington, the Pentagon is Hit: When terrorist hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, the Boeing 757 hit "Wedge One" -- the southwest side of the building -- which was in the final stages of a major renovation. Fifty-nine passengers and crew on the plane and 125 people in the Pentagon were killed. When the jet crashed into the Pentagon, its fuel ignited. This eagle flagpole finial was scorched.
6. NEW911_110908_086.JPG: This US flag flew over the Pentagon during its reconstruction
Multi Column: Number of columns of thumbnails to appear per page (normally defaults to 3): [1 col] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Directly Related Pages: Other pages with content (DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) 9/11 Gallery) directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2014_DC_Newseum_911: DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) 9/11 Gallery (39 photos from 2014)
- 2008_DC_Newseum_911: DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) 9/11 Gallery (7 photos from 2008)
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Museums (Other)] [Newseum (Everything)] [Newseum (Non-Events)]
2011 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN), New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting), my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Limiting Text: You can turn off all of this text by clicking this link: [Thumbnails Only]
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].