Mariusz Max-Kolonko, Małgorzata Zawadka, Jarosław Anders, Michał Kolecki, Piotr Milewski and many other journalists reported live over 20 years ago the situation in New York and Washington, where terrorist attacks occurred. How do they remember this day years later?
Attacks on the WTC in 2001. Correspondents’ reports
The attacks on the World Trade Center in the United States began in the early afternoon Polish time. For evening news programs, Polish television stations have already activated all contacts in the USA and obtained several dozen hours of materials. How do the correspondents contacted that day remember what happened in New York and Washington?
Małgorzata Zawadka, a correspondent of “Newsweek”, interviewed on TVN, said years later that the attacks on the WTC left a mark on her.
I was overwhelmed by such absolute terror of what happened, Zawadka said in an interview with Magdalena Rigamonti for TokFM. – What happened was a cataclysm. We thought it was a war, that the whole world had stopped.
September 11 was the first day of school in New York. It was supposed to be a nice day – she also said years later in an interview with TVN24. – First, Tomasz Lis from “Fakty” on TVN called me. At first I thought it was a joke, but then it turned out to be true.
Mariusz Max Kolonko was nominated for the Journalist of the Year title for his coverage of the USA at that time. Years later, he often returned to the events in the USA in September 2001 – increasingly raising topics of conspiracy theories. In recordings in the following years, he rhetorically asked what would be left after the WTC among people who would get over the shock and start chasing money, arguing and thoughtlessly risking their lives again.
At that time, Piotr Milewski worked as an American correspondent for Radio ZET. He also received information about the attacks from Poland. “I’m saying that they must have messed something up,” he said in an interview with Przemysław Gulda for Teleshow.wp.pl.
The skyscrapers looked like huge factory chimneys. People were suffocating inside, but the fire seemed to be decreasing. I remember thinking that the automatic fire extinguishers must have started working. (…) At that moment, the unimaginable happened – the southern skyscraper collapsed. (…) I felt the stink. Eyes were burning. American journalists were as stunned as I was, but in such situations one becomes as if outside oneself, cutting oneself off from emotions. (…) Everyone was terrified, he said.
As a result of the attacks on September 11, 2001, 2,753 people died. More than six thousand people were injured. Only 18 people survived the collapse of the buildings – mainly firefighters gathered in staircase B of the North Tower. Several films have already been made about the attacks.
Source: Gazeta
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