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Never Forget: Michael Smerconish Remembers 9/11
Never Forget: Michael Smerconish Remembers 9/11
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Length:
139 minutes
Released:
Sep 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
PART 1: THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE DAY Segment 1 - Intro; Jose Melendez Perez, former Inspection Officer at Orlando International Airport who didn't let the so-called 20th hijacker proceedSegment 2 - Michael Touhey, US Air ticket agent who checked in two hijackers in Portland, ME; Clip of Nat'l Security Adviser Condi Rice testimony before the 9/11 commissionSegment 3 - Alice Hoagland, her son was on Flight 93; Lawrence Wright, author "The Looming Tower"Segment 4 - Kevin Flynn, author "102 Minutes: The untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers" - and Richard Picciotto author of Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers and Led his Men to Safety PART 2: THE DAY OF Segment 1 - Audio of Michael's first minutes on the air on 9/11 in PhiladelphiaSegment 2 - Ben Sliney, was FAA's National Ops Manager that day, overseeing air traffic control in Herndon, VA. Played himself in the movie "United 93"Segment 3 - Aaron Brown, recalls anchoring on his first day on air on 9/11 on CNNSegment 4 - James Meigs, Popular Mechanics, debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories and CIA Commander Gary Bernsten author of JawbreakerPART 3: THE AFTERMATH Segment 1 – Then-Senator Barack Obama, March 2008 on the hunt for Osama being outsourced to Pakistan; TIME WH Correspondent Michael Scherer on the Situation Room the night Osama was killed; Peter Baker, NY Times on reporting on the hunt; Peter Bergen, author “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden, from 9/11 to Abbotabad”Segment 2 – Mark Owen (Matt Bissonette) author “No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy Seal – The First-hand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden”Segment 3 – Rob O’Neill, the SEAL who shot Bin Laden and author of THE OPERATORSegment 4 – The Atlantic’sJennifer Senior, What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind https://bit.ly/3BuwHvE
Released:
Sep 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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