Ep. 22 - Shanksville
Description
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.