Blindspot: The Road to 9/11

December 16, 1773. Samuel Adams sits in a crowded meeting of American colonists at Boston’s Old South Meeting House. He’s watching small groups of men slip quietly out the door. Once outside, the men don disguises and make their way toward three ships moored in the harbor – each ...  Afficher plus

December 18, 1970. Decades after the end of WWII, a Nazi doctor is on trial. Today is judgment day in a long, difficult legal battle, but this case isn’t about war crimes. The German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal is charged with the worst medical disaster in history: the Thal ...  Afficher plus

The 9/11 attacks were so much more than a bolt from the blue on a crisp September morning. They were more than a decade in the making. Our story starts in a Midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1990. Shots ring out and the extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane, lies mortally wounded. His a ...  Afficher plus

Dans cet épisode de Crousti-History, on vous parle des attentats du 11 septembre 2001. Ou 9.11 pour le dire à l’américaine.Ce jour-là, quatre avions sont détournés par des terroristes. Un premier frappe la tour nord du World Trade Center à Manhattan. Le deuxième percute la tour s ...  Afficher plus

Time has flattened our understanding of the 9/11 terror attacks. There’s a sense that they came out of the clear blue sky of the day itself. They didn’t. We'll revisit the evidence and question the people at the center of the story. Voices featured in this trailer include Jim O’G ...  Afficher plus

*Thank you Michael, Jenny, Braden, Bennett and Ty for allowing me to share your family's story.*

Today’s podcast is Michael B. Wright's powerful first hand account from inside the Twin Towers during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in NYC. The audio from this sto ...