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The only plane in the sky an oral history of 9/11

Journalist and historian Garrett Graff tells the story of September 11, 2001 as it was lived, in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesse...

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Main Author: Graff, Garrett M., 1981- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.
Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Subjects:
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Personal narratives.
Terrorism > Personal narratives.
United States > History > 21st century.
Oral histories.
Table of Contents:
  • Aboard the International Space Station
  • September 10th
  • Tuesday begins
  • Checking in
  • 8:00 a.m. in New York City
  • The hijackings
  • Inside air traffic control
  • The first plane
  • The second hijacking
  • The military gears up
  • The second plane
  • Live, on air
  • At Emma Booker Elementary School, Sarasota, Florida
  • First reactions in D. C.
  • American Airlines Flight 77
  • The third plane
  • On Capitol Hill
  • Flight 93 in peril
  • The World Trade Center evacuation
  • Jumping
  • The FAA makes history
  • The Trade Center rescue continues
  • The first collapse
  • Inside the cloud
  • Inside the PEOC
  • The military responds
  • The fourth crash
  • Fear at the Pentagon
  • The first casualty
  • Around the towers
  • After the collapse
  • The rescue at Shanksville
  • At school in Arlington, Virginia
  • Aboard Air Force One, somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico
  • Among those who knew
  • Escaping the Pentagon
  • In between collapses
  • The second collapse
  • Trapped in the ruins
  • After the collapse
  • At the waterfront
  • Midmorning at the Pentagon
  • Midmorning at the Capitol
  • With the Secretary of Defense
  • At Barksdale Air Force Base
  • Midday in New York City
  • Midday in Washington
  • Airborne, somewhere over the plains
  • Afternoon in Shanksville
  • At Mount Weather
  • At Ground Zero
  • At the hospitals
  • The 9/11 generation
  • At Offutt Air Force Base
  • Afternoon in America
  • Searching
  • 9/11 at sea
  • Afternoon at the Pentagon
  • Airborne en route to Andrews Air Force Base
  • Evening in Washington
  • In the Oval Office
  • The evening of 9/11
  • The day ends
  • Epilogue.

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