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WATCH: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer’s 9/11 full episode
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October 20, 2025
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59:39Now Playing“Terrorists used hijacked airliners to kill Americans on this Sept. 11, 2001. Another day of infamy for the United States of America.”
That’s how anchor Jim Lehrer opened the newscast hours after hijackers flew passenger jets into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 Americans died, making 9/11 the single deadliest day due to a foreign attack in U.S. history.
At the time of the crash, a News Hour producer had been at the Pentagon, less than three miles from WETA’s television studios, and captured live footage of the aftermath. Another News Hour producer and cameraman captured footage from nearby rooftops and spoke to eyewitnesses.
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