Catalog / tape V9
TAPE V93 DISCS4 SPOTS · 4 WATCHABLE
Donated by Tim Nelson, Shorewood, IL
Disc A · Sep 11 2002
Second recorder; first disc of tape V9. CNN's live '9/11: America Remembers' coverage on the first anniversary, Wednesday, September 11, 2002, about 8:39 to 10:39 AM Eastern by CNN's on-screen clock — one continuous, unpaused recording, commercial-free (CNN ran no breaks in these hours). Aaron Brown at Ground Zero and Paula Zahn; Wolf Blitzer at the Pentagon, John King, Carol Lin near Shanksville, Bill Hemmer.
- Ground Zero: the pipers' procession; Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; the 8:46 moment of silence led by President Bush from the White House South Lawn; Gov. George Pataki reads the Gettysburg Address; former Mayor Rudy Giuliani begins reading the victims' names (Yo-Yo Ma plays); bells for the second impact.
- The Pentagon ceremony: the 9:37 moment of silence, Gen. Richard Myers, Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush's speech, Rear Adm. Barry Black's benediction and the flyover.
- Bells for the South Tower's fall (9:59) and North Tower's fall (10:29); Shanksville bells for Flight 93; Tom Ridge at Shanksville; Colin Powell reads names.
Starts mid-sentence ('...six minutes away') and ends mid-sentence with coverage continuing. Tracking is clean.
No uploads: no commercials, promos or IDs on this disc.
Watch disc A in full at the Internet Archive
Disc B · Sep 11 2002
Second recorder; second disc of tape V9. CNN's live '9/11: America Remembers' coverage continues on Wednesday, September 11, 2002, picking up at about 10:40 AM Eastern (7:40a PT on CNN's clock), a minute after V9A ends, and running about two hours. Commercial-free; the "CNN Remembers" victims' names crawl runs the whole way.
- Ground Zero: the reading of the victims' names continues; the families walk down into the site.
- New York Stock Exchange moment of silence; Bill Hemmer from Lower Manhattan; Ellis Island; Gov. James McGreevey.
- Shanksville, Pennsylvania: President and Mrs. Bush at the Flight 93 site; interviews with families and first responders, including a fire battalion chief's account from the towers.
- An on-screen schedule card lists the rest of the day (Pentagon remarks by Rumsfeld, Port Authority memorial, Battery Park candlelight vigil, President Bush's 9 PM address).
No uploads: no commercials, promos or IDs on this disc.
Watch disc B in full at the Internet Archive
Disc C · Sep 11 2002
Second recorder; third disc of tape V9. CNN's live '9/11: America Remembers' coverage continues on Wednesday, September 11, 2002, from about 12:39 to 2:40 PM Eastern by CNN's on-screen clock. The first ~25 seconds overlap the end of disc V9B (Patty Davis on Northwest Flight 979, diverted to Fort Smith, Ark.). From here CNN ran commercial breaks — anniversary messages sponsored around its '9/11 Hero' portraits. Paula Zahn and Aaron Brown anchor; Judy Woodruff, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Hemmer, John King, Miles O'Brien, Jamie McIntyre, Jeanne Meserve and Maria Hinojosa report.
- President and Mrs. Bush with families at Shanksville; the Pentagon 'Phoenix Project' ceremony with Donald Rumsfeld; Ground Zero.
- Hero portraits: Pentagon Medal of Valor recipient Eric Jones; Port Authority Officer David Lim and his dog Sirius; Welles Crowther; the three Haskell brothers of the FDNY; Benjamin Keefe Clark.
- 'What Really Happened' pieces: inside the WTC, the White House bunker, air traffic control ('Eyes on the Sky'), and Flight 93; the Stuyvesant High play 'With Their Eyes'; the Riverside Church Port Authority service; tributes from Tel Aviv, London and Bagram.
- Breaking news: the Ohio state government building evacuated in Columbus.
- The disc ends mid-interview at Ground Zero with Bill Hemmer.
Watch disc C in full at the Internet Archive
Program log
- 0:00:00 CNN '9/11: America Remembers' (about 12:39 PM ET), continuing from V9B
- 1:12:11 Paula Zahn / Aaron Brown afternoon coverage (about 1:52 PM ET)
- 1:58:50 Bill Hemmer at Ground Zero (about 2:39 PM ET) — the disc ends mid-interview
The breaks, in airing order
Break 1
| Time | Spot | Len |
|---|---|---|
| 0:11:02 | NYSE portraits of courageous heroes billboard — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :10 |
| 0:11:12 | United Methodist Church 'I Pray' - 9/11 Anniversary Prayer Spot (2002)'I pray for safety... I pray for a change in angry hearts. No matter how you pray, or where, the people of the United Methodist Church are praying with you.' Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors. | :30 |
| 0:11:42 | Ad Council 'Freedom. Appreciate It. Cherish It. Protect It.' - Street of Flags 9/11 PSA (2002)A street of rowhouses with no flags, then the same street hung with flags: 'On September 11, terrorists tried to change America forever. They succeeded.' Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it. - the Ad Council. | :30 |
Break 2
| Time | Spot | Len |
|---|---|---|
| 1:11:31 | NYSE billboard — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :10 |
| 1:11:41 | United Methodist Church I pray — repeat, not uploaded | :30 |
| 1:12:11 | Ad Council 'It All Starts with Freedom' - Classroom Civil Rights PSA (2002)Kids in a classroom watch civil-rights footage - 'We March With Selma!', 'We Shall Overcome' - as the words chain from FREEDOM to ASSEMBLE to CHALLENGE. It all starts with freedom. Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it. - the Ad Council. | :30 |
Break 3
| Time | Spot | Len |
|---|---|---|
| 1:57:24 | NYSE billboard — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :10 |
| 1:57:34 | NYSE 'Let Freedom Ring' 60 - 'Every Day, the World Gets Down to Business' (9/11 Anniversary, 2002)Dawn over the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, mounted police, firefighters, shopkeepers and the September 17 reopening bell on the trading floor: 'Every day, the world gets down to business... all because, every day, a bell rings. Let freedom ring.' The 60-second version. | :60 |