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ASSOCIATED PRESS NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger
ASSOCIATED PRESS/ NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001, by the New York City Police Department was obtained by ABC News, which claims to have acquired it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows smoke and ash engulfing the area around the World Trade Center in New York. The photos were taken from a police helicopter.
ABC releases new photos of Sept. 11
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.
The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept. 11,2001. They were obtained by ABC after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency that investigated the collapse.
The chief curator of the planned Sept. 11 museum pronounced the pictures "a phenomenal body of work."
The photos are "absolutely core to understanding the visual phenomena of what was happening," said Jan Ramirez of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. They are "some of the most exceptional images in the world, I think, of this event."
In some of the pictures, the tops of the nearby Woolworth Building and other skyscrapers can just be seen above the enormous cloud of debris, gray against a clear blue sky. Gray clouds billow through the streets of the financial district and shroud the 16 acres where the towers had stood just moments before.
Buildings can hardly be seen at all in one image — just dust clouds hanging over the Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan.
One close-up shows orange
flames and black smoke pouring from the upper floors of the north tower, the first hit by a hijacked plane.
"I almost didn't realize what I was seeing that day," Greg Semendinger, the former New York Police Department detective who took the 12 pictures posted on ABC's site, told The Associated Press. "Looking at it now it's amazing I took those pictures. The images are ... stunning."
The attack and the collapse of the World Trade Center were well documented on live TV and amateur video. But more than eight years after the nation's deadliest terror attack, the images still had the power to shock and disturb. They were an instant sensation on the Internet.
"Some survivors may find these pictures too painful to look at," said Richard Zimber, president of the WTC Survivors Network. "But they are an important part of the historical record."
ABC said NIST gave the network 2,779 pictures on nine CDs. The network posted 12 pictures on its Web site Monday. ABC initially said some of the photographs posted had never been seen before, but later backed off that assertion.
Semendinger was first in the air in a search for survivors on the rooftop. He said he and his pilot watched the second plane hit the south tower from the helicopter.
"We didn't find one single person. It was surreal," he said. "There was no sound. No sound whatsoever, but the noise of the radio and the helicopter. I just kept taking pictures."
he remembered Patton having a strong desire to learn as much as possible in the master's program.
"The great educational and practical experience that I got at KU has really helped me develop
ASSOCIATED PRESS: NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semmingenden
This photo was taken Sept. 11, 2001, by the New York City Police Department and obtained
ABC News under the Freedom of Information Act. It shows a World Trade Center tower burning
after it was hit by a passenger jet.
He said his background in journalism helped him interact with the international media, which he does on an almost daily basis. Patton said he recently spoke with five television journalists from Pakistan.
"He was not a wanderer," Bengston said. "He had clear objectives in mind."
"He was not a wanderer. He had clear objectives in his mind."
TIM BENGSTON associate professor of journalism
After more than 30 years in
the service, Patton recommends students broaden their experience in education while they can. He emphasized the importance of skills over subjects.
This is Patton's third tour overseas. He was previously in Iraq for 27 months. Meanwhile, his wife and three children live in northern Virginia.
Tim Bengston, associate professor of journalism, was Patton's faculty advisor when he was at the University. Bengston said
As a brigadier general, he is above a colonel and below major general. Patton is the deputy commander of NATO Training Mission Afghanistan.
"Our goal is to reverse that insurgency and stabilize the government of Afghanistan so we don't have the Taliban opposing it and we don't have a safe haven for al-Qaida." Patton said. "That ties directly into the safety and
"The skills that you learn in school are ones that you will rely on the rest of your life regardless of what direction your career takes," Patton said.
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which is in charge of training the Afghan army and police. Patton said the war is against the insurgency of the Taliban, which is known to provide safety to al-Qaida.
security of America."
"We have a lot of good programs so far this semester," Hering said. "But we don't have the money to fund them all completely."
the ability to deal with the media and also know why it is important" Patton said.
Hering, president of the Student Environment Advisory Board.
Last Thursday and Friday, the group used iPod Touches from the Office of Student Success to survey students in the Kansas Union. The group surveyed more than 250 people, mostly students, to measure the interest in environmental issues on campus. The results from the survey were not published, but the group says many students were interested in ways to bring renewable energy to campus.
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"The most encouraging
response was that about 47 percent of the 276 students surveyed responded that they would be willing to pay $3 to $5 per semester for the required campus renewable energy and sustainability fee," said Kimberly Hernandez, a Student Environmental Advisory Board member. "It was really inspiring to talk to so many students who cared about the environment and had an interest in sustainability at KU"
The group plans to do another survey in the spring in front of Wescoe Hall to get more input from more students.
Edited by Michael Holtz
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