U.S. Government Puts 9/11 Record Online

U.S. Government Puts 9/11 Record Online

U.S. Government - AP

WASHINGTON - A lengthy account of the Sept. 11 attacks has been put online by the Library of Congress (news - web sites) in the form of nearly 170 audio and video interviews, totaling 40 hours, with photos, drawings, written narratives and poems.

Some of the interviews were done with people who had been in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites) when the hijacked planes struck. They were among more than 400 recordings and 421 items of graphic material collected from 27 states and a U.S. military base in Naples, Italy.

These were received in response to an e-mailed 'Call for Participation' that went out from the library's American Folklife Center the day after the attack.

The library modeled the project after one launched Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, which has been preserved in a collection called 'After the Day of Infamy.' Both projects are now among than 125 historic collections compiled and put online by the library in a set called 'American Memory.'

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