Ep. 22 - Shanksville
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We hit the pavement to grapple directly with the National Park Service's Flight 93 National Memorial, and with 9/11. An album of photographs to aid your listening experience: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4zgYqd SOURCES: - Flight 93 National Memorial, NPS Brochure: http://bit.ly/2hbF1g7 - Timeline for United 93: http://n.pr/2hcDZg4 ; - Flight 93 National Memorial Cell Phone Tour: http://bit.ly/2fgXSWh ; - Memorial Committee Jury Report: http://bit.ly/2x9LnD0 ; - Environmental Impact Report: http://bit.ly/2y9zMAK ; - Jean Baudrillard, "The Spirit of Terrorism," Oct. 2001: http://bit.ly/2woSjwB ; - Jean Baudrillard, "Hypotheses on Terrorism," an essay published with the above and two others as The Spirit of Terrorism (Verso, 2003); - The 9/11 Commission Report: http://bit.ly/2iwak0Q ; - A small plane crashes into the White House, 9/11*/1994: http://abcn.ws/1sVddp8 ; - Don DeLillo, Falling Man (2007). Audiobook read by John Slattery; - Dick Cheney on Chris Wallace, 9/04/2011: https://youtu.be/fir1N4mil3s ; - Denny Hastert's Congress sings to a battered nation, 9/11/2001: https://youtu.be/IH_6EUCILew ; - Luis Gonzalez saves the world: https://youtu.be/gNt3UuDTBz8 FURTHER READING: - "The Forgotten Memorial: How 9/11 Changed Shanksville, Pennsylvania," by Craig Fehrman in the New Republic (Aug. 2011): http://bit.ly/2y8zc6g ; - on Wally Miller, the Somerset County coroner: http://bit.ly/2w2WD08.
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